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HI STORY OF THE 
BRINGHURST FAMILY 
WITH NOTES ON THE 
CLARKSON, DE PEYSTER 
AND BOUDE FAMILIES 



TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRINTEt 
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TH€ LIBRARY OF 

CONGRESS. 
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AUG. 21 1901 

COPfRtOHT ENTRY 

CLASSA^XXo. N*. 
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Copyright, 1901 

BY 

JosiAH Granville Leach 



This Volume 

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR 
TO THE MEMORY OF 

THE LATE 

COLONEL THO>L\S HALL BRINGHURST 

A MAN OF iMUCH PRIVATE AND CIVIC WORTH 

AN ARDENT PATRIOT WHO VALIANTLY 

SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN 

TWO WARS 



PREFATORY NOTE 



I PREPARED this work at the instance of Captain Robert 
Ralston Bringhurst, of Philadelphia, and its publication is due 
to his generosity. 

In tracine out the Brinsfhursts of the United States I have 
met with none save those descended from John Bringhurst, the 
Printer and Publisher of London. 

J. Gr.vnvillk Leach. 

Philadelphia, M.iy, 1901. 




CONTENTS 



History of the Bringhurst Family 15 

Journal of John Bringhurst, Junr 95 

Journal of Joseph Bringhurst 107 

Notes on the Clarkson Family 115 

Notes on the De Peyster Family 123 

Notes on the Boude Family 129 

Errata and Addenda 135 

Index i37 





LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Bringhurst Arms Frontisl>icce 

View of St. Nicholas, the Parish Church of Bringhurst, England 17 - 

Fac-simile of Letter of Attorney of Dr. Thomas Bringhurst 17 '^ 

Fac-simile of First Two Pages of Journal of John Bringhurst, Jun^ 18 '^ 

" Rockbourn," First Cotton-Factory in Delaware 22 -- 

Residence of Late Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst 26 - 

Fac-simile of Business Letter-Head of James Bringhurst 28 - 

Silhouettes of Mr. and Mrs. James Bringhurst 30 "^ 

Fac-simile of Letter of George Washington to John Mitchell 32 ' 

Fac-simile of Letter of John Mitchell to Washington 34 ^ 

Fac-simile of Letter of John Mitchell to Washington 36 i^ 

Fac-simile of Letter of George Washington to Mitchell 36 ^ 

Portrait of Dr. Joseph Bringhurst 38 - 

Fac-simile of Letter of John Dickinson to Dr. Joseph Bringhurst 40 "^ 

Fac-simile of Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Joseph Bringhurst 42 - 

Fac-simile of Letter of Robert Fulton to Dr. Joseph Bringhurst 42 ^ 

Fac-simile of Letter of Henry Clay to Dr. Joseph Bringhurst 42 

Portrait of Jesse Bringhurst 44 

Portrait of Mrs. Jesse Bringhurst 44 • 

Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bringhurst 46 

Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth (Bringhurst) Herkness 48 - 

Portrait of Joseph Bringhurst 50 

Portrait of Edward Bringhurst and his Son, Edward, Jun^ 54 

Portrait of Robert Ralston Bringhurst 56 

Portrait of Miss Katharine Sexton Bringhurst 58 

Portrait of Colonel John Henry Bringhurst 62 

Portrait of Rev. George Bringhurst 64 ^ 

Portrait of William Stuart Bringhurst, PhD 66 ' 

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



PAGE 

Portrait of Samuel Bringhurst 68 

Portrait of Henry Ryan Bringhurst 70 i^ 

Portrait of Edward Bringhurst, Jun"", and his Son, Edward 3d 72 \^ 

" Rockwood," seat of Edward Bringhurst, Junf T2 ^_^ 

Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. William Joseph Bringhurst and their Children 74 -- 

Portrait of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst, in Uniform 76 

Portrait of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst, taken late in life 78 

Portrait of Robert Ralston Bringhurst and four of his sons, — Rev. George, Robert 

Morris, William White, and Washington Henry 80 

Portrait of Major Robert Wilton Bringhurst 82 

Portrait of Edward Slater Bringhurst 84 "■ 

Portrait of William Augustus Bringhurst 86 

Portrait of Robert Porter Bringhurst 88 

Portrait of Captain Ralston Bringhurst 90 

Portrait of First Wife of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst 92 - 

Portrait of Second Wife of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst 92 

Fac-simile of Visiting-Cards of General Kosciusko and Captain Paul Jones 102 

Tomb of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhust 106 

Early Home of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst, at Logansport, Indiana 112 

Portrait of Rev. David Clarkson, D.D 114 

Portrait of Hon. Matthew Clarkson, Mayor of Philadelphia 117 

Residence of John Bringhurst (1725/95), also Howe's Head-quarters, German- 
town 128 

The Decorations by Edward Stratton Holloway 




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H ISTOR Y OF THE 
BRINGHURST FAMILY 




HISTORY OF THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 




HE Bringhursts of the United States are descended 
from the Bringhursts of Leicestershire, England, 
vvliere an ancient family of that surname bore 
for arms, Ac. tzvo bars ertn. in chief three es- 
callops or. Crest. — An arm emhozved, habited 
i)i mail ar. holding in the hand ppr. a spike club 
sa. spikes or. 

The town and parish of Bringhurst, which 
antedates the Norman Conquest, and from which the family derived 
its name, stands in the southeast corner of Leicestershire, in an angle 
between Northamptonshire and County Rutland, and skirting the river 
Welland.* According to Leland, the town was given by one Ranulfe, 
a kinsman of King Edward the Confessor, to the Abbey of Peterborough, 
in Northamptonshire. Leland writes: " Ranulphus Comes, propinqitis 
regis Edwardi Confessoris dedit monasterion de Peterburgh, Bring- 
hurst, Easton, Drayton, Prestgrave, Blathestun and Langeton in Comi- 
tatii Lccestr." 

The earliest mention of the surname found by the writer in printed 
works is that of Robert de Bringhurst, who, prior to 1260, was lord 



♦ See Burton's History of Leicestershire, 47. 
15 



HISTORY OF THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 

of Broughton, Bringhurst, etc., and had holdings at Drayton, Holt, 
and Prestgrave. Nichols, in his valuable History of Leicestershire,* 
accords to this Robert de Bringhurst the arms before given. 

In 1320 — the time of Edward the Second — one John Bringhurst 
was summoned to Parliament,! and in 1567 another of the same name 
was Rector of St. Mary Magdalen, Waltham, Leicestershire. In 1627 
Charles Bringhurst, " chirurgeon," had a son James baptized at the 
church of St. John Baptist, Peterborough, and on 25 June, 1630, William 
Bringhurst, son of John Bringhurst, of Brabrooke, county Northampton, 
matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, and four years later received 
the degree B.A. On 9 March, 1639, Henry Bringhurst, Esqre, and Sir 
Thomas Rotherham, were elected members of the Parliament of Ireland, 
from Kings County. In 1660 the Rev. Dr. Isaac Bringhurst graduated 
at Queen's College, Cambridge, and became rector of Toddington, 
county Bedford, where he was buried 16 October, 1697, and where 
a memorial tablet was erected in his church. In 1698 one John Bring- 
hurst was graduated at Queen's College, and another of the same name 
in 1739. The Gentleman's Maga::inc of 1736 records the death of " Rev. 
Mr." Bringhurst, precentor of the Cathedral Church of Ely. 

The first time the name Bringhurst is found in America is in 1680, 
when one Thomas Bringhurst appears in the list of inhabitants of 
St. Michael's Parish, in the Island of Barbadoes, and is credited with 
having five hired servants, several apprentices, and five slaves, t On 
21 March, 1682, the Council of Barbadoes appointed him "caretaker 
of powder," and on the 13th of June followmg, the same body ordered 
that he be paid fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty-nine pounds 
of sugar. § 

* Vol. ii., part ii., p. 512. 

t Palgrave's Parliameiitao' Writs, i. 227. 

X Hotten's Lists. 

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TO HIS WIFK 

Page 17 




THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 




HOMAS BRINGHURSTS the grandfather of the 
Bringhursts who emigrated to Pennsylvania about 
1 700, was a chirurgeon (physician and surgeon) 
of London, England, and married 27 August, 
1647, Elizabeth Hughes, which facts are obtained 
from the manuscript " Memorandoms" made by 
his grandson, John Bringhurst, of Philadelphia, 
as will be seen by a fac-simile of the first two 
pages of such manuscript, hereinafter interleaved. It is thought that 
Dr. Bringhurst was a native of Leicestershire, but it is quite possible 
that his immediate ancestors had resided in London. On 30 October, 
1614, a license was issued there for the marriage of " Thomas Cooper, 
of St. Clements, Danes, Middlesex, yeoman, bachelor, and Elizabeth 
Bringhurst, of St. Andrew, Holborn, spinster, daughter of Thomas 
Bringhurst, late of Easton, county Leicester, yeoman, deceased," and 
on 17 April, 1607, Katharine, wife of Thomas Bringhurst, was buried 
at St. James, Clerkenwell, London. Thomas was not a common name 
in the Bringhurst family, and were a search instituted in London it 
might be found that one, and possibly both of the Thomases here named, 
are near connections of Dr. Bringhurst. The latter was living in 
London 15 November, 1660, on which day he gave to his wife a power 
of attorney, the fac-simile of which is herewith interleaved. 

17 



THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 




JOHN BRINGHURST^, son of Thomas Bringhursti 
by his wife, Elizabeth Hughes, was born i November, 
1655, and died circa 1699. He was apprenticed to 
Andrew Toaler, stationer in London, and was made a 
freeman of that city 3 September, 1681. It appears, 
however, that prior to that date he had begun business 
as a pubHsher and stationer, as in that year at least two works were 
issued with his name in the imprint. One of these, and probably his first 
publication, written by Christopher Taylor, and entitled " An Epistle of 
Caution to Friends to take heed of that Treacherous Spirit, . . . with a 
Short Testimony prepared by John Bringhurst," bears this imprint : 
" Printed in London for John Bringhurst, at the sign of the Book in 
Grace-church Street, near Cornhill, 1681." 

John Bringhurst was a member of the Society of Friends, and became 
known as the Printer and Publisher of Friends' Books. Many of his 
publications are mentioned in the Catalogue of Friends' Library, and are 
sufficiently numerous to indicate that his business was prosperous from 
the beginning. His activity in this direction, however, brought him into 
trouble. In 1683 he printed a little book, called George Fox's Primer, 
which contained " a passage liable to misconstruction."* Bringhurst was 
arrested for printing the same, and, upon trial, was sentenced, 20 Septem- 
ber, 1684, to pay a fine of one shilling and stand two hours in the pillory. 
In 1683 Mr. Bringhurst removed from Gracechurch Street to 
another part of London, which fact is announced at the end of one of his 
publications in these words : " This is to give notice, that John Bring- 
hurst, Printer and Publisher, who formerly lived at the sign of the Book, 
in Gracechurch Street, is now removed to the Sign of the Book and Three 
Black Birds, in Leaden-Hall-Mutton Market, between the Black Bull 
and Colchester Arms, where any person may be supplied with Printing, 
books, and paper, as formerly." Of his career after 1685 but little is 
known. There is a strong tradition in the family that, following the 
arrest before mentioned, he suffered many other persecutions on account 
of his religious faith, and, in consequence, removed to Amsterdam, Hol- 
land, where his four children who came to America are said to have 

* Bessie's " Sufferings of the Quakers," i. 466. 
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1 have a few Lines to Write coueerning my 
7)ear Husband. 

HE was an upright hearted man in his doings , 
he fetved the Lord with all his Heart, and was 
lauhful in his place to every one that he was concer- 
ned with, to do them good, and u was his greatett 
delight to fee truth profper, efpecialy amongft the 
young ones, with whom he was concerned, it was 
hisgreateftjoy and fatisfaclion to fee theLords powct 
breaking in upon them, fo that he could not but 
Praife and GlorJfic the Lord many a time for it, 
often upon his very Death- Bed he lay praifing and 
glorifying of the Lord for his great mercies bellowed 
upon him. 

And although I loft 2 dear and tender Husband, 
who was very dear in, and tender over me, yet ( be- 
ing in the Lords will,) I am content with the will' 
of God, being a!fo that he now reaps the reward, 
which many a time he travelled for i and in forfaek- 
jog his country, and his Fathers houfe, to comca- 
mongft a people that ferved the Lord with upright, 
nefs of heart, be had his defire anfwi red, and what 
great joy and peace he departed this Life, and is gone 
Into everlafting happincfs, to be with the Lord for 

ever and evermore. 

Kofina lihurn. 



THE END. 



SECOND GENERATION 



been born.* The date and place of his death have not been definitely 
ascertained, but he died about 1699, at either Amsterdam or London, 
more probably at the latter place. 

John Bringhurst married at London, 2 4th month (June), 1682, 
Rosina, daughter of Reverend Hillarius and Barbara Prache, or Prachen, 
and widow of John Matern. She was born in Germany, where her 
father had been a Lutheran clergyman, or, according to the " Memo- 
randoms" of John Bringhurst, " a Priest in Orders," and where, in 1671, 
he and his family, and John Matern, his son-in-law, became converts to 
the religion of the Friends, which led to their removal to England about 
that time. Such removal is thus referred to by John Matern in his 
"Testimony" f written 24 August, 1680, seven days before his death; 
" The Lord raised a desire in my Father-in-law, who was a Priest . . . 
to go to the People of the Lord which he had raised, gathered, and 
chosen for himself in England, . . . and as soon as he made it known 
to us, his wife and children, we found the same willingness, and freedom 
also in us to go out from our Fathers :}: House and Kindred, not con- 
sulting with flesh and blood what would become of us. . . . And after 
we had made known our Desire and intent to some of our Dearest 
Friends, ... we left all for the love of Truth, and went away ... in 
all our Journey the Lord was with us, and brought us safe and well with 
Joy and Gladness of our Souls, to his Beloved People here in England. 

Mrs. Bringhurst's father, Hillarius Prachen, died about 1693, and 
shortly afterwards her mother, sister, and step-daughter came to Phila- 
delphia, bringing with them a " Certificate of Removal," from Friends 
in London, which is entered in the records of Friends' Meeting at Phila- 
delphia, as follows : 

" To ye frds & Brethren of ye Mo : Meeting at Philadelphia or elcewhere 
" Whereas Barbara Prachin ReHct of Hillarius Prachin & Mariana Van Btiylaert 
Relict of John Van Buylaert and Abigaill Matern ye daughter of John George Matern 
School Master Deceased have an intention of Transporting themselves unto your 
Country and desire a certificate from us touching their conversation &c. 

* The " Memorandum" of his son John makes no mention of the family having lived in Holland, while 
the record of births of Friends' Meeting at Philadelphia notes the dates of birth of the children of John and 
Rosina Bringhurst, and state that they were "all born at Amsterdam." 

t " The Testimony of that Dear and Faithful man, John Matern," etc., printed in London, 1680, the last 
page of which was written'by his widow, as is seen from the fac-simile of the page herewith inserted. 

t He doubtless refers to his own father. 

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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



" These Therefore may certify all fTrd^ concerned yt upon enquiry made Concern- 
ing the said Barbara Prachen Mariana Van Buylaert & Abigaill Matern (mother 
daughter and grand daughter) we do not find but that they are free and clear from 
any engagements in relation to marriage with any here and have been of sober con- 
versation amongst friends so wth ye Salutation of dear Love in ye Holy and pretious 
Truth wee remain in ye ffellowship thereoff your friends & Brethren, from ye frd^ 
and Brethern of ye 2 weeks meeting in London y^ 5 ^ 1693/4." * 

After Mrs. Prachen settled in Philadelphia she frequently wrote to 
Mr. and Mrs. Bringhurst. urging them " to come over," but Mr. Bring- 
hurst " could not be persuaded with to cross the ocean to a new country," 
as is learned from the " Memorandoms" of the son, who further writes : 
" My father being dead, my mother concluded to transport herself & 
family of small children to Pennsylvania, . . . and accordingly took Pas- 
sage at London in the Brigantine Messenger, James Guy Master, for 
herself and four children being Elizabeth, John, Barbara & George, & 
landed at Philadelphia." The date of their emigration is uncertain, but 
it was before 16 October, 1701, on which day Mrs. Bringhurst was a 
witness to the will of Samuel Siddon, of Philadelphia. She died at 
Philadelphia, 4 January, 1711/12, and her mother died there, 9 March, 
1711/12. 

Children,! born at London, England, or Amsterdam, Holland : 

3. RosiNA Elizabeth Bringhurst", born 24 August, 1688; married, 10 Sep- 

tember, 1713, Emanuel Dungworth, son of Richard Dungworth, of 
Philadelphia. 

4. John Bringhur.st." born 25 February, 1691 ; died 20 September, 1750; 

married Mary Claypoole. 

5. Barbara Bringhurst', born 29 March, 1693; married, 6 June, 1715, 

William Morrison. 

6. George Bringhurst', born 15 May. 1697; died 18 February, 1752; married 

Anna Ashmead. 

• The certificate is signed by Thomas Hudsonn, Charles Bathurst, W" Ingram, Thos : Barker, Tho : Cox, 
W" Saunders, Philip Ford, Theodore Eccleston, John Staples, John Miller, John Tomkins, and Benjamin 
Bealing. 

t There may have been other children who died before the family emigrated. 



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THIRD GENERATION 



4. JOHN BRINGHURST^ son of John Bringhurst^ 
by his wife Rosina Prachen, was born at London, Eng- 
land, or Amsterdam, Holland, 25 February, 1691, and 
died on the Island of Barbadoes, 20 September, 1750. 
At the age of ten years he was apprenticed to George 
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and at which he worked for a time, and then determined to try his " suc- 
cess at sea." He shipped as cooper of the Brig " Elizabeth," Thomas 
Reed master, and made a voyage to Surinam, returning from which he 
studied navigation with William Robins, and later made several sea- 
voyages, which are interestingly related in his " IMemorandoms," printed 
in full in the Appendix to this volume. After his marriage in 1718, he 
quitted the life of a mariner and engaged in the cooperage business. In 
1727 he engaged in commercip.l pursuits, still retaining, however, his 
cooperage establishment, in all of which he was successful, as a few years 
later, with the assistance of two others, he was enabled to pay for the 
building of the Brigantine " Joseph," and, with his partners, to freight 
the vessel and send her on voyages to foreign ports. 

In 1 72 1 he was chosen constable of the city, in 1725 was made Col- 
lector of Dock Ward, in 1728 was chosen one of the Overseers of the 
Poor, and three years later was made one of the Overseers of the Public 
School founded by charter from William Penn, now known as William 
Penn Charter School, in which capacity he was probably continued until 
his decease, as, on i March, 1749, he joined with James Logan, Israel 
Pemberton, Anthony Morris, and the other overseers in conveying land 
belonging to the School. 

Mr. Bringhurst was prominent in the community and generally 
esteemed, and he was frequently called upon by his friends to execute 
private trusts. He is named as an executor of the will of William Carter 
in 1738, the will of Thomas Chalkley in 1742, and that of Simon Edghill 
the following year. He was also a prominent member of the Society of 
Friends, and was active in all of the religious work of the Monthly Meet- 
ing at Philadelphia, of which he was chosen an Elder, 30 December, 1748. 
The high esteem in which he was held by Friends is expressed in a memo- 
rial of him, printed in "The Friend," volume xxxi., page 108. 

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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



His last will and testament, dated i6 June, 1750, and proved at Phila- 
delphia, names wife Mary, sons Joseph, James, and John, daughter 
Mary, wife of Judah Foulke, daughter Elizabeth Bringhurst, and sister- 
in-law Elizabeth Claypoole. At the time of his death he was on a visit 
to Barbadoes, whither he had gone a short time before with the hope of 
improving his failing health. He died there at the house of " widow" 
Oxley, whose husband. John Oxley, had previously died at Mr. Bring- 
hurst's house in Philadelphia while on a visit there. 

He married, 30 October, 171 8, Mary, daughter of John Claypoole, 
Esqre,* and granddaughter of James Claypoole, Esqi's,! a noted Penn- 
sylvania colonist. She survived her husband, and died at Philadelphia, 
2 July, 1 76 1. 

Children, born at Philadelphia : 

7. Mary Bringhurst', born 18 January, 1720/21 ; died 22 January, 1798 ; 

married Judah Foulke, Esqfe. 

8. John Bringhurst*, born 9 November, 1722 ; died unmarried, 15 De- 

cember, 1789. He was a prominent iron merchant, at Philadelphia, 
a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and one of the signers 
of the Non-Importation Resolutions. 

9. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 4 February, 1723/24; died 25 December, 

1790. 

10. James Bringhurst', born 7 December, 1730; died at Portsmouth, Rhode 

Island, 27 February, 1810; married (i) Anne Pole; (2) Hannah 
Peters; (3) Ruth Barker. 

11. Thomas Bringhurst*, born 17 January, and died 19 January, 1731. 

12. Joseph Bringhurst', born 20 March, 1732/33; died at Wilmington, 

Delaware, in 181 1. He was apprenticed to his father, at the trade 
of cooper, but eventually followed the footsteps of his father, and 
became a merchant. He was a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hos- 
pital and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He 

* John Claypoole came to Pennsylvania in the ship " Amity" in 1682. He was assistant to Snr\eyor- 
General Holmes ; Clerk of the Assembly from 16S6 until 16SS ; and in 16S7 became High Sheriff of Phila- 
delphia, in which office he serv^ed several years. He was son of 

t James Claypoole, one of the most prominent of those who assisted Penn in founding Pennsylvania. 
On the organization of the Free Society of Traders in London, 29 May, 1682, Mr. Claypoole was chosen the 
treasurer of that organization, and retained the office until his death. 6 August, 16S7. In 1683 he was ap- 
pointed Deputy Register-General of the Province, but declined the office. In 1685 he was commissioned 
a justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, over which body he presided, and in the same 
year he was commissioned one of the justices of the Supreme Court. In 1686 he was elected a member 
of the Assembly, and during the year of his death he became a member of the Provincial Council. For par- 
ticulars of his ancestry and family, see the " Claypoole Genealogy," by Mrs. Graff, published at Philadelphia 
in 1893. 

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THIRD GENERATION 



never married, and left at his death a large estate. For many years 
he kept a journal, or " Memorandum," in which he noted happenings 
that interested him, a fac-simile of which is inserted in the Appendix. 

13. Deborah Bringhurst*, born 21 December, 1734; died 16 January, 1735. 

14. Deborah Bringhurst', born 15 September, 1736; died 16 April, 1737. 

6. GEORGE BRINGHURST^ second son of John Bringhurst^ by 
his wife Rosina Prachen, was born at London, England, or Amsterdam, 
Holland, 15 May, 1697, ^"^ <^'^d at Germantown, Philadelphia, 18 Feb- 
ruary, 1752. His life at Germantown began in his youth, when he was 
apprenticed to Arent Klicken, weaver, a prominent citizen of that town. 
If he was instructed in the trade of a weaver it would appear that he did 
not make this his occupation, but engaged in the saddlery business, in 
which he prospered and came to possess a goodly estate. In the German- 
town tax-list of 1734 he is assessed for twenty-six and one-half acres, 
and from this list it is learned that his immediate neighbors were Henry 
Pastorius, on the one side, and John Ashmead, his father-in-law, on the 
other. He was one of the fifteen persons present on 14 September, 1740, 
when the limits of Market Square, Germantown, were surveyed and fixed 
by Benjamin Eastburn, Surveyor-General of the Province. From a 
mortgage given by himself and wife Anna, 13 January, 1731/32, we learn 
that he was then the owner of three tracts of land, one of which he pur- 
chased in 1726 of John and Mary Jarret. The inventory filed in his 
estate enumerates several landed possessions in Germantown and a tract 
of eight and one-half acres in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia. 
The following is the copy of his last will and testament : 

BE IT REMEMBERED THAT I GEORGE BRINGHURST OF GERMAN- 
TOWN in the County of Philadelphia and Province of Pennsylvania Sadler being 
weak and indisposed in Body, But through the Goodness of God am of Sound dis- 
posing mind and memory Calling to mind therefore the uncertainty of my time here 
I have thought it Convenient to settle my outward affairs by this my last Will and 
Testament First requesting that all and singular my just Debts funeral expences &c. 
be well and truly paid & discharged, and the residue of my Estate I dispose of in 
manner folloviring — that is to say I give and bequeath to my beloved Wife Anna Bring- 
hurst the following Goods & particulars Viz : my best Bead, Beading, Bedstead, Cur- 
tains and all furnature to the said Bed blonging, A Chest of drawers a looking Glass, 
a large Arm Chair & a dozen of my best other Chairs, a large Black Walnut Table, a 
Joynt stool table, a Couch, a pendelum Watch or Clock a Corner Cupboard, an Iron 
Stove now in Use, warming pan, a Walnut Chest with two drawers, a Cow & dung 

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hook & fork & all the Hay & other fodder now in the Barn a Dough Trough a large 
Brass Kettle & a smaller one a large Iron Pot & a lesser one, a Bell Metal Pot with 
my Pot racks and hooks a pair of And Irons fire shovel & Tongs & Grid Iron, a Box 
Iron & heaters, a frying pan & Baking Iron, a flesh fork brass Skimmer & all my 
Pewter a Tea Kettle two Tea Potts & all other Tea furniture A Quilting frame all 
my stone Jugs a Cradle & side Sadie, all our Earthen Ware & Candlesticks Snuffers 
and Candle Box, all our linnens and Woollens both made and unmade into wearables, 
a Coffee pot a Coffy mill a dressing Box, a little Trunk with a smaller one in it a gold 
ring a big & little Spinning wheel, a spade & wheelbarrow, all which I give & bequeath 
unto her my said dear Wife for her Use & to dispose of at her discretion, I give & 
bequeath to my son John Bringhurst all my Tools for making of Saddles or Sadlary 
Uttensils whatsoever & in whose hand soever the same are found. I give & bequeath 
to my Son George Bringhurst a Cros Cut saw & all my Saws & tools or utensils 
Saddletree making and a Chest to hold part of said Tools & all the wood which I 
have for making of Saddletrees, as also a Bible my Desk & a pair of Gold Buttons 
— I give & bequeath to my Daughter Hester Bringhurst a Bed. Beadstead Beding, 
Curtains & all furniture to the said Bed belonging, a black Walnut Chamber Table, 
a dressing Box a looking Glass, a pair of And Irons, fire shovel & Tongs & half a 
dozen of Chairs, and I will that my wearing apparel be made Use of for the Clothing 
of my two little Sons Samuel and William, all the remainder of my Moveables I will 
and require to be disposed of and sold and the same with all other my Personal Estate 
appropriated to the subsistence of my Wife and Younger Children, the which Younger 
Children I request may be kept to School until! they are capable to be put to prentice 
which should be at the age of fourteen Years at the longest and in order for the 
discharging of my Just Debts I will and require that such a part of my Real Estate 
as to my Executrix & her Assistants herein after named shall seem necessary shall be 
sold and disposed of in the best manner & for the best price that may be had for the 
same (with this Proviso that if possible my House wherein I now dwell with some 
part of my Land and Buildings lying Contiguous & Convenient thereunto be reserved 
& kept for the Use and Benefit of my Wife and Children in such manner as I shall 
hereinafter direct) Wherefore I impower & authorise my Executrix hereinafter 
named, or those whom I may appoint Executors in her room in case of her disability 
or the Survivor of them to Sell and dispose of part of my Real Estate in manner as 
is above directed and make and execute good & sufficient Deed or Deeds, Convey- 
ance or Conveyances for the same to the Purchaser or purchasers & to his her or their 
Heirs and Assigns forever in fee Simple And with the Money arising by such Sale 
to pay and discharge all my Just Debts as aforesaid and as to the remaining part of 
my Real Estate to wit my dwelling House & Lot thereunto belonging I give & bequeath 
the LTse Rents & Profits thereof to my beloved Wife aforesaid to be appropriated to 
the Maintaining of herself and the Maintaining Clothing & Schooling of our two 
Youngest Children until they are put out to prentice. I also give & bequeath the use 
Rents and Profits aforesaid to my said Wife for and during her Natural Life if she 
continues so long my Widow, But in Case she intermarries then and in such Case she 
shall have the Thirds of s<l Rents and Profits during her natural life, and the other 
two thirds to be equally divided amongst my Surviving Children, The Use Rents and 
Profits of my said Real Estate is to be undrstood to be vested in my said Wife until 
my said two Youngest Children be put out prentice whether she marries or otherwise 

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for her and their support as aforesaid and after my Wifes decease I give and bequeath 
my said remaining Real Estate unto all my Children to wit John, Sarah, George, 
Hester, Samuel & William and to their Heirs and Assigns forever in fee Simple to 
be divided amongst them in manner following that is to say my two Youngest Children 
Samuel & William to have Ten Pounds each lawful Money of Pennsylvania or Value 
thereof more or over and above the Proportion of the other four, in Consideration 
that my said four Eldest Children have had something more by this Will & otherwise 
than my said Youngest Children have had, so that my said four Eldest Children shall 
have an equal proportion of my said remaining Real Estate share and share alike — 
And my two youngest Children shall have such a proportion and Ten Pound each or 
Value thereof more than the four eldest is each to have, And if any or either of my 
said Children should depart this life in their Minority unmarried & without lawful 
Issue, in such Case my Surviving Children & their Heirs shall have the decedents part 
or proportion equally share & share alike. The Heirs representative or representatives 
of any of my Children who may be deceased before they receive their part is to have 
the said part equally divided amongst them I Nominate Constitute and appoint my 
beloved Wife Anna Bringhurst aforesaid Sole Executrix of this my last Will and 
Testament and Guardian to my Younger Children aforesaid — And I appoint my Son 
John Bringhurst and Son in Law George Palmer my Trustees and Assistants to my 
said dear Wife in Case of need, and in Case of my wife's death or being otherwise 
disabled to go through & finish the affairs of her Executrix ship in such Case I appoint 
them my said Son John & Soninlaw George Palmer as Executors & Guardians to my 
said Children in her room and stead with full power to them or the Survivor of them 
to act & do in all things as fully & amply as she could or might have done in case 
she were living and otherwise Capable of said Trust I do hereby revoke and make 
void all other and former Wills or Testaments by word or writing by me at any time 
heretofore made or expressed ratifying & Confirming this only as my last Will & 
Testament IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal Dated 
the twenty first day of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred 
and fifty two 1752. 

Signed Sealed Published and declared by the 1 

said George Bringhurst as his last Will & Testa- J- George Bringhurst [seal] 

ment in the presence of us i 

John Jones 

Danl. Mackenet 

Thos Rose 



Mr. Bringhurst had no tloitbt given attention to tlie education of his 
children, as is indicated by the direction in his will that the two youngest 
be " kept at school." 

He married, i September, 1723, Anna Ashmead, born at Cheltenham, 
Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania, g February, 
1707/8; died at Germantown, in August, 1760; daughter of John Ash- 

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mead * by his wife Sarah, daughter of Samuel Sellers, of Darby, Pennsyl- 
vania. The Bible of Mrs. Bringhurst, possessed by her before marriage, 
on a leaf of which is written " Anna Ashmead Her Book, 1718," is still 
preserved in the family. It was presented by her to her son William, 
" September 25th 1759." The will f of Mrs. Bringhurst, dated 6, and 
proved 26 August, 1760, names sons John, George, Samuel, and William, 
son-in-law George Palmer, and grandchildren Elizabeth, Anna, Mary, 
and George Palmer. 

Children, all born at Germantown : 

15. Sarah Bringhurst*, born 20 April, 1724; died before the date of her 

mother's will ; married George Palmer. 

16. John Bringhurst', born ig February, 1725/26; died 18 March, 1795; 

married (i) Mary Finney; (2) Elizabeth Shute. 

17. Mary Bringhurst*, born 28 March, 1728/29; died 2 July, 1749. 

18. Hannah Bringhurst*, born 23 April, 1730; probably died young. 

19. George Bringhurst*, born 13 September, 1732; died 7 April, 1797; 

married Sarah Trump. 

20. Esther Bringhurst*, born 2 December, 1734; married, 20 July, 1758, 

Arthur Broades, and died without issue. 

21. Anna Bringhurst*, born 25 .August, 1737 ; probably died young. 

22. Samuel Bringhurst*, born 6 January, 1740; died 8 May, 1818; married 

Susanna Keen. 

23. Rebecca Bringhurst*, born 5 January, 1744; probably died young. 

24. William Bringhurst*, born 24 June, 1745; died 16 October, 1798; 

married, 4 June, 1769, Mary Morris. 

* John .Ashmead, boni at Cheltenham, county Gloucester, England, 14 October, 1648, emigrated to Penn- 
sylvania in 16.S2 or 16S3, in company with his mother, Mar\- Ashmead, his wife and two children, and his 
brother-in-law, Toby Leech, with his family, .\shmead and Leech had purchased a large tract of land from 
William Penn, at what is now Cheltenham township, Montgomery County, then a part of Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania, and here they settled, gi\ing the name to the township. John Ashmead died there, 21 December, 
16S8. He married, at Cheltenham, England, Mar>', daughter of William Currier, of that place. She died at 
Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, 22 December, 16S8, theday following the decease of her husband. His mother died 
there two years later, and letters of administration on her estate were granted to her son-in-law, Toby Leech. 
The latter was a large landowner and a prominent man in the Province, serving several years in the Assembly. 

John Ashmead named in the text, son of John and Mar>- (Currier) Ashmead, was bom at Cheltenham, 
England, 12 July, 1679; died at Germantown, Philadelphia, 7 October, 1742 ; married, 12 October, 1703, Sarah, 
daughter of Samuel Sellers,! of Darby, Pennsylvania, by his wife Anna Gibbons, boni at Darby, 13 July, 1685. 

t Philadelphia Will Book L, 506. 



t SARtt^SL Sellers was an early Quaker colonist. He emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1682, from Belper, 
county Darby, England, and settled in Darby, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1732. He is the ancestor of 
the prominent family of that name, in and about Philadelphia. He married in 16S4, Anna, daughter of Henry 
Gibbons. § 



^ Henrv Gibbons emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1682, from Parividge, county Darby, England, with his 
wife Helen and family. He was a Friend, and resided in or near Darby, Pennsylvania, until his death 
in 1701. 

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7. MARY BRINGHURST*, eldest child of John 
Bringhurst* by his wife Mary Claypoole, was born at 
Philadelphia, 18 January, 1720/21 ; died there, 22 Janu- 
ary, 1798; married, 16 February, 1743/44, Judah 
Foulke, Esqre, born at Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, 30 July, 
1722; died at Philadelphia, 24 January, 1776; son of 
Cadwalader Foulke by his wife Mary Evans. Mr. Foulke was a promi- 
nent and active citizen of Philadelphia. From 1745 until 1750 he was 
Collector of Excise; in 1770, 1771, and 1772 was High Sheriff of the 
county; from 1770 to 1774, Marshal of the Admiralty; in 1773 was 
appointed Clerk of the Market, and during the same year was commis- 
sioned by Governor John Penn, Sealer of Weights and Measures for the 
county. In 1754 he was elected a member of the " Colony-in-Schuyl- 
kill," the oldest social organization in America, and in 1758 he became 
a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital. In 1763 he was chosen a 
member of the " Fishing Company of Fort St. David's," in 1765 was a 
signer of the famous " Non-Importation Agreement," and on 25 March, 
1775, was chosen by Congress one of the signers of the one million 
dollars of Continental bills ordered to be issued at that time. 



Children ; 



25. Cadwalader Foulke', born in 1748. 

26. Mary Foulke^ born in 1753. 

27. John Foulke", born in 1757; died in 1796; became an eminent physician 

in Philadelphia ; was educated at Robert Proud's noted school ; 
studied medicine, and graduated therein at the College of Phila- 
delphia, in 1789, and then went to Paris " to improve himself in 
Surgery and Physics." Before his graduation he served in a medical 
capacity in the Revolution. Robert Morton, in his Diary, under date 
of 8 October, 1777, writes : " I went to see Doc. Foulk amputate 
an American soldier's leg, which he completed in 20 minutes, while 
the physician of the military hospital was 40 min. performing an 
operation of the same nature ;" and Dr. Barnabas Binney, writing 
from the " General Hospital, French Creek, 30 miles from Phila- 
delphia," under date of 31 August, 1778, in mentioning a number 
of medical men with the army, says, " Young J. Foulk is with post; 
a pedantic young Quaker still." Dr. Foulke is said to have been 
the earliest demonstrator and lecturer on anatomy in the Medical 
College of Philadelphia, and during the yellow fever epidemic of 
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1/93 he absented himself from his home for days at a time, de- 
voting his attention to the sick in the infected districts. He was 
a member of the College of Physicians, and an officer of the American 
Philosophical Society, before which body he delivered the annual 
oration in 1789. He married, 8 May, 1788, Eleanor, daughter of 
Richard Parker, and had issue. 

28. Elizabeth Foulke°, born 28 September, 1758; died 19 October, 1820. 

29. Deborah Foulke", born 28 September, 1764; married (i) William Pear- 

son ; (2) Isaac Tyson. 

10. JAMES BRINGHURST\ son of John Bringhurst=' by his 
wife Mary Claypoole, was born at Philadelphia, 7 December, 1730; 
died at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 27 February, 1810, and was buried 
in the Friends' burying-ground at Tiverton, in that State. His early 
business career was that of a master carpenter and builder, but he subse- 
quently became a merchant, and acquired large wealth. His father-in- 
law, John Pole, a wealthy merchant of Philadelphia, owned a country- 
seat, embracing a large tract of land on Gray's Ferry Road, at what is 
now Thirtieth and Thirty-first Streets. After Mr. Pole's death in 1755, 
Mr. Bringhurst, partly through the inheritance of his wife, and partly 
by purchases from the other heirs of Pole, became the possessor of this 
estate, and there maintained a handsome and well appointed country-seat 
for many years. A portion of the estate remained in the Bringhurst 
family until 1850.* Mr. Bringhurst would seem to have had some knowl- 
edge of carriage-building, — the occupation for several generations of 
many of the Bringhursts of the Germantown branch of the family. 
Hannah Callender, in her Diary under date of 26 August, 1761, writes: 
" Parents consenting Anna Pole, Betsy Bringhurst, H. Callender, James 
Bringhurst, and Samuel Sansom set out for Bethlehem and the country 
adjacent, intending a tour of a week or ten days in a complete light 
wagon (for a pair of horses) made by Jaines Bringhurst." f He was a 
member of the Carpenters' Company, of which he was Warden in 1769, 
and one of its managers in 1772/75, and was one of the trustees to 
whom was conveyed the land on which the noted " Carpenters' Hall" is 
built. In 1 761 he became a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital. 

* Robert Morton, in his Diary, under date of 20 October, 1777, at which time the British Army were in 
possession of Philadelphia, notes that a foraging party, consisting of Hessian soldiers, foraged at the planta- 
tion of James Pemberton, and " from thence they went to J. Bringhurst's place, where they took all the Hay 
and most of ye Potatoes which belonged to the tenant." (See Pennsylvania Magazine of History, i. 20.) 

t Pennsylvania Magazine of History, xii. 448. 

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and in 1768 a member of the American Philosophical Society, and he 
was a member of the building committee which conducted the construc- 
tion of the Hall of the society in Independence Square. A fac-simile 
of his notice to attend a meeting of the society is here inserted.* He re- 



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Society, to be held at the HotiJ'e of the Prefident, Dodor Franklin, thh 
Evening, at 'li/i 0' Clock; when a Number of Gentlemen, propofed as new 
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tired from business some years before his death, and the last two years 
of his life he resided in Rhode Island. Mr. Bringhurst's family was 
prominent in social circles in Philadelphia, and in the Directory of the 
city and in his will he is styled " gentleman." He was a member of the 
Society of Friends. 

He married (i), February, 1761, Anne, daughter of John Pole,t of 
Philadelphia, by his wife Rachel Smith. She died at Philadelphia, 5 
March, 1777, aged 44 years. He married (2), circa 1778, Hannah 
Peters, who was buried 19 September, 1782, aged 31 years. He married 
(3) Ruth Barker, born 15 January, 1746; died 6 December, 1815; 
daughter of Abraham Barker, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, by his wife 
Susanna Anthony. 

* The meeting was held 17 April, 1789, when La Princesse Catharine d'Aschkaw.of Russia, Don Francis de 
Gardoyne, " auditor of the Rota for the Crown of Castile at the Court of Rome," John Stephens, Jun"", of New 
Jersey, the eminent engineer and scientist, General Winthrop Sargent, and others were elected to membership. 

t John Pole was born in England, 31 December, 1705, and died at Philadelphia, 5 January, 1755. He 
married at Friends' Meeting-House, Burlington, New Jersey, 22 January, 1735, Rachel, daughter of Dr. 
Richard Smith, of Burlington, by his wife Ann Marshall. In the marriage record he is styled as " of Bustle- 
hay, Wivelscombe, Somersetshire," from which it is apparent that he had but recently come to America. 
After his marriage he settled in Philadelphia, where he was a prosperous merchant, and became possessed 
of a large estate. For an account of his wife's family, which was a prominent one in New Jersey, see " The 
Smith Family of Burlington." 

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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



Children, all by his first wife, and born at Philadelphia: 

30. John Bringhurst', born i April, 1762 ; died 4 August, 1763. 

31. John Bringhurst°, born 25 April, 1764; died 16 June, 1800; married 

Mary Lawton. 

32. James Bringhurst°, born 4 March, 1766; died 27 May, 1818; married 

(l) Rachel Settle; (2) Ann Carroll. 

33. Joseph BRINGHURST^ born 6 October, 1767; died 26 July, 1834; married 

Deborah Ferris. 

34. Jonathan Bringhurst', born 8 May, 1769; died 9 November, 1818, 

unmarried. 

35. Edward Bringhurst°, born 16 December, 1770; died 26 September, 1794, 

unmarried. 

36. Rachel Bringhurst°, born 15 February, 1775; died 16 February, 1777. 

15. SARAH BRINGHURSTS eldest child of George Bringhurst^ 
by his wife Anna Ashmead, was born at Germantown, 20 April, 1724; 
died before 6 June, 1760; married at Christ Church, Philadelphia, 23 
January, 1749/50, George Palmer, of Germantown, who was buried 
there, 15 April, 1781. 

Children, all born before 1760: 

ZT- Elizabeth Palmer'. 

38. Anna Palmer'. 

39. Mary Palmer'. 

40. George Palmer'. 

16. JOHN BRINGHURST^ eldest son of George Bringhurst^ by 
his wife Anna Ashmead, was born at Germantown, 19 February, 1725/ 
26; died there, 18 March, 1795. He resided at what is now the south- 
east corner of Main and Bringhurst Streets, his estate at that point con- 
sisting of a tract of nineteen acres. Some years after his death his heirs 
divided the tract into building lots and opened through the land the street 
bearing the family name. Mr. Bringhurst was a prominent citizen of 
Germantown, and there conducted an extensive business as a coach and 
chaise builder. He was one of the first, if not the first, to build what is 
known as the " Germantown waggon," in the construction of which he 
largely engaged shortly after the Revolution. In 1780 he built a 
" chariot" for General Washington, who, in a letter from " Head- 
quarters" of the Army, under date of 20 March, that year, to John 
Mitchell, deputy quartermaster-general of the army, writes : " You do 

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me a favour by enquiring, & letting me know as soon as possible, if 
any good coach-maker in Phila or German Town (Bringhurst for 
instance) will engage to make me a genteel plain chariot with real Har- 
ness for four horses to go with two postilions. I wish to know the 
terms and in how short a time it can be done." Ten days later he further 
writes : " In case you should purchase, please to have my arms and crest 
properly dispd of on the chariot," and four days later Mr. Mitchell writes 
to Washington : " This day I went to Germantown & have prevailed on 
Mr. Bringhurst to let you have a Chariot he has in hand — it appears to 
be good Work & well seasoned timber, the size is 3 feet 63/2 inches high 
and 3 feet 10 inches wide — & will have a very very good second Cloth 
or better if to be got, this will be ready in 6 weeks." From other letters 
which passed between General Washington and Mr. Mitchell on this 
subject, it appears that the price of the chariot was £210 in gold; that 
Mr. Bringhurst purchased General Washington's old coach, for which 
he paid £2^, and that the chariot was used for the first time, in the latter 
part of June, to carry Mrs. Washington from Philadelphia to Mount 
Vernon. Under date of 26 June, Mr. Mitchell writes : " Mrs Washing- 
ton is very well and expects to sett ofif for Virginia on Sunday next — the 
chariot will be finished on Thursday or Friday next, & I believe will 
please your Lady." That Mr. Bringhurst came to be recognized as the 
foremost man in Philadelphia County in his line of business is apparent in 
that he was selected to lead the coach-builders in the famous " Federal 
Parade" which took place in Philadelphia, 4 July, 1788, to celebrate the 
adoption of the Constitution of the United States.* 

In 1760 Mr. Bringhurst, with his brother George, conveyed a lot of 
ground to the trustees of the Germantown Union School, now the Ger- 
mantown Academy, on which lot the present Academy building stands. 
From the founding of the Academy until his decease he held almost con- 
tinuously some position of trust in connection with it. He was a member 
of its first building committee, and many years one of its trustees, and 
president of the board of trustees in 1787/89. In 1769 he became a 
contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and in 1775 he was a mem- 
ber of the Committee of Correspondence for Philadelphia County. Mr. 

* In the printed account of this Parade, the XLIX Section in the line is thus noted : " Coach Makers.— 
Preceded by Mr. John Bringhurst in a phaeton, drawn by two horses, and bearing a draft of a coach on a 
white silk flag." 

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Bringhurst was one of the wealthiest citizens of his day in German- 
town, and in the tax-hst of 1780 his estate is rated the second highest 
in the hst. His will, dated 27 December, 1794, proved 4 April, 1795, 
names wife Elizabeth, children Mary Shute, George Bringhurst, Mar- 
garet Simmons, Anna McCullough, Sarah Bringhurst, Elizabeth Dunant, 
and Isaac, Jesse, and Thomas Bringhurst, and sons-in-law James Sim- 
mons, John McCullough, and Edward Dunant. 

He married ( i ) Mary Finney, daughter of Charles Finney by his 
wife Elizabeth Tregeny. She died about 1753, and he married (2), circa 
1754, Elizabeth Shute, born 12 November, 1735; died at Germantown, 
18 April, 1808. Both she and her husband are buried in Hood's Ceme- 
tery, Germantown, where a large flat stone, with inscriptions, marks their 
graves. She was a daughter of Joseph and Anne Shute.* 

* Thomas Shute was the first of that surname in Pennsylvania. He was a Quaker and came to the Province 
as early as 1690. The first mention of him there is under date of 25 August, 1690, when he purchased of Samuel 
Carpenter one hundred acres of land in Bristol township.f He is on the tax-list of that township, 28 Sep- 
tember, 1693, but during that year he sold the property purchased of Carpenter to John Lukens, of German- 
town.} He later purchased one hundred and twenty acres in the Northern Liberties, and about the same 
time a tract of eleven hundred and thirty acres, bordering on Bucks County, and some of the land being in 
that county.§ On 21 February, 1723124, he bought of Charles Read and others a lot of ground on Pine Street, 
between Ninth and Tenth Streets, containing in front three hundred and ninety-six feet and in depth three 
hundred and sixty-six feet. His last known acquirement of land was on 2 December, 1742, when he bought 
a tract of forty acres in the Northeni Liberties. He was one of the substantial citizens of Philadelphia, hut 
does not seem to have aspired to public office, as his name is not found in the civil list of his day. He mar- 
ried (i). 9 October, 1694, Elizabeth, daughter of John Hood, of Darby. She died 4 May, 1695, and he married 
(2), 29 December, 1696, Elizabeth, daughter of William Powell, of Philadelphia. Mr. Shute died at Philadel- 
phia, 3 December, 1748, and his wife Elizabeth Powell died 3 July, 1743. His last will and testament, dated 
10 December, 1748, was proved at Philadelphia the following year, from which it would appear that his chil- 
dren living at the making of his will were Christian, Joseph, William, Jacob, and Isaac. 

Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Powell) Shute : 

L Christian, married, 25 smo., 1717, Samson Davis, 
n. Joseph Shute, married. 
HI. William Shute, married, 30 June, Elizabeth Steel, daughter of James Steel, Register-General 

of Pennsylvania. 
IV. Thomas Shute, died i November, 1738. 
V. Isaac Shute, died 16 September, 1702. 
VI. Elizabeth Shute, died 28 romo., 1736. 
VIl. Jacob Shute, married, 27 August, 1725, Mary Royden. 
VIII. Ann Shute, died 21 August, 1735. 
IX. Abraham Shute, died 7 December, 1718. 
X. Isaac Shute, died 1755. 

Joseph Shute, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Powell) Shute, was born in Philadelphia, and probably died 
there, although the record of his death has not been found ; nor has the record of his marriage, or the name 
of his wife, been found. He resided in the Northern Liberties, on a tract of two hundred acres, which came 
to him under his father's will. A part of this tract he conveyed to his grandson, George Bringhurst. 



t Philadelphia E.xemplification Deed Book VII., 446- t 'bid., 443. § 'bid., II., 209. 

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Children, born at Germantown : 

41. Mary Bringhurst", born 14 May, 1751 ; married John Shute. 

42. George BR^NGHURST^ born 20 June, 1755; died 29 December, 1829; 

married Anna Clarkson. 

43. Margaret BRINGHURST^ born circa 1757; died 8 February, 1798, in 

her 41st year; married James Simmons, who died at Germantown, 
in 1809.* 

44. Anna Bringhurst", married John McCullough. 

45. Sarah Bringhurst°, born in 1761 ; died 27 October, 1831. 

46. Isaac Bringhurst', married Mrs. William Williams. 

47. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 5 September, 1765; died 3 November, 

1822; married, 26 April, 1786, Edward Dunant, born 5 January, 
1764; died 22 May, 1813; both buried in Christ Church graveyard, 
Philadelphia. 

48. Jesse Bringhurst', born in 1770; died 24 April, 1822; married Mildred 

Keen. 

49. Thomas Bringhurst\ born 21 June, 1775; died 8 August, 1849; mar- 

ried Mary Fraley. 

19. GEORGE BRINGHURST*, second son of George Bringhurst^ 
by his wife Anna Asliinead, was born in Germantown, 12 September, 
1732; died there, 7 April, 1797, and is buried in Hood's Cemetery. He 
resided on Main Street, Germantown, where he owned several houses. 
He was for some years one of the trustees of the Germantown Union 
School, now Germantown Academy, and a contributor to its support. 
His will, dated 7 April, 1797, proved 21 of the same month, f styles him 
" Saddletree Maker," and names wife Sarah, and the children given 
below, in the order named. He married, 14 October, 1760, Sarah Trump, 
of Whitemarsh township; she died April, 181 2, in the seventy-fifth year 
of her age. 

Children, born at Germantown : 

50. Ann BRINGHURST^ married, as first wife, Shubert Armitage, a lieu- 

tenant in the Revolutionary Army, by whom she left her surviving 
four children: 51. Mary'; 52. Almisa"; 53. Rebecca"; and 54. 
George'. 

♦James Simmons, by his wife Margaret Bringhurst, left three children sun-iving him, — to wit, John 
Bringhurst Simmons. WilHam S. Simmons, and Catharine Simmons. The latter married Colonel Condy 
Raguet. a prominent Philadelphian. who ser\ed in the war of 1S12. first as captain of the Washington Guards, 
and later as lieutenant-colonel of the battalion commanded by Colonel Clement C. Biddle. Colonel Raguet 
was bom at Philadelphia, 28 Januarj'. 17S4, and died there, 22 March, 1S42, and a sketch 01 him will be found 
in Appleton's " Cyclopaedia of American Biography," v. 160. 

t Philadelphia Will Book X,, 567. 

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55. William BRINGHURST^ born circa 1765 ; died February, 1850. 

56. George Bringhurst',* born 1767; died 4 April, 1798. 

57. Mary Bringhurst', died 7 November, 1797. 

58. Clement Bringhurst', died in i860; married. 

59. Robert Bringhurst", born in 1778; died 2 November, 1832; married 

Margaret Brewster. 



22. SAMUEL BRINGHURST*, son of George Bringhurst^ by his 
wife Anna Ashmead, was born at Germantown, Philadelphia, 6 January, 
1740; died there, 8 May, 1818; married, circa 1765, Susanna Keen, born 
9 August, 1744; died 2 January, 1818; daughter of Matthias Keen f 
by his first wife Mary Swift, sister of John Swift, Esq>"e, who was for 
many years Collector of the Port of Philadelphia. From 1784 until 1815 
Mr. Bringhurst was a trustee of the Germantown Union School. 

Children, born at Germantown : 

60. John Bringhurst", born in 1768; died in infancy. 

61. Matthias Bringhurst", born in 1770. 

62. John Bringhurst", born in 1771 ; died in 1816. 

63. Tacy Bringhurst", born 5 March, 1776; died 6 August, 1840; married 

Samuel Ashmead. 

64. Samuel Bringhurst", born in 1778. 

65. Henrietta Bringhurst", born in 1781. 

66. Matthew Bringhurst", born in 1783. 

67. Anna Bringhurst", born in 1785. 

68. Mary Bringhurst", born 24 August, 1787; died 28 July, 1871 ; married 

William Lehman. 



24. WILLIAM BRINGHURSTS youngest child of George Bring- 
hurst^ by his wife Anna Ashmead, was born at Germantown, Philadel- 
phia, 24 June, 1745; died i6 October, 1798; married, 4 June, 1769, 
Mary Morris, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Morgan Edwards, 
" at the house of the widow Morris in Arch Street/* Philadelphia. 

* It is possible that he had married, as the records of Old Swedes Church, Philadelphia, note the burial, 
5 August, 1795, of Sarah Bringhurst, " lo months old," daughter of George and Elizabeth Bringhurst, and 
Eliza Bringhurst, " 7 months old," daughter of George Bringhurst. 

t Matthias Keen was a descendant of Joran Kyn or Keen, an early Swedish colonist on-the-Delaware, 
and the founder of the well-known Keen family of Philadelphia. The History of this family, written by 
Gregory B. Keen, Esq", the present librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, is printed in the 
Pennsylvania Magazine of History, Volumes H. to VH., and is one of the most interesting publications on 
family history that has appeared in Pennsylvania. 

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Children : 



69. Israel Bringhurst", born 28 February, 1770; died 27 December, 181 1; 

married Mary Lewis. 

70. Esther BRINGHURST^ born 27 February, 1772. 

71. Joseph Bringhurst', born 21 January, 1774. 

72. Mary Bringhurst', born 2 December, 1776. 
■Ji. Anna Bringhurst", born 29 May, 1779. 

74. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 21 January, 1787; died 24 November, 
1850; married, 22 June, 1803, Adam Herkness. 




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31. JOHN BRINGHURST^ son of James Bringhurst* 
by his wife Anne Pole, was born at Philadelphia, 25 
April, 1764; died there, 16 June, 1800; married, 30 
April, 1789. Mary Lawton, of Newport, Rhode Island; 
died at Philadelphia, 11 February, 1793. Her father, 
Robert Lawton, was a prominent and wealthy citizen of 
Newport, and his daughter " Polly," as Mary was called, was a noted 
Revolutionary Belle. Count Segur, a French officer, wrote of her : " So 
much beauty, so much simplicity, so much elegance, so much modesty 
were never before combined in the same person. Her gown was white 
like herself, whilst her ample muslin neckerchief and the envious cambric 
of her cap, which scarcely allowed me to see her light colored hair, and 
the modest attire, in short, of a pious virgin, seemed vainly to endeavor 
to conceal the most graceful figure and the most beautiful form im- 
aginable. She was a nymph rather than a woman. Her eyes seemed 
to reflect as a mirror the meekness and purity of her mind and the good- 
ness of her heart. She received us with an open ingenuousness which 
delighted me, and the use of the familiar word thou, which the rules of 
her sect prescribed, gave to our new acquaintance the appearance of an 
old friendship." 

Her marriage to John Bringhurst was a great social event at New- 
port, and her life was a brilliant one socially, and there are many inter- 
esting reminiscences about her visits to the Presidential mansion. Her 
married life, though bright, was brief, and it is said that her husband 
was never the same after her death, and that he always wore around his 
neck a miniature containing a lock of her hair. 

Child: 

75. John Bringhurst", born 29 August. 1792; died at the residence of his 
grandfather Lawton, at Newport. 23 January, 1803. 

32. JAMES BRINGHURST^ JUNR, son of James Bringhurst* by 
his wife Anne Pole, was born at Philadelphia, 4 March, 1766; died there, 
27 May, 1818. He was an iron merchant for many years, and later 
became a clerk in the United States Bank. He married (i), 12 August, 
1789, Rachel, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Bettle. She died at Phila- 

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delphia, 25 August, 1795, aged 27 years. He married (2) Ann Carroll, 

who survived him, and died about 1829. The first three children below 
named were by his first wife, and the remaining three by the second. 

Children of James Bringhurst, Junf, born at Philadelphia : 

76. Joseph Bringhurst', born 18 February, 1790; died 23 August, 1863; 

married Elizabeth Evans. 

77. James Bringhurst', born 4 April, 1792; died 14 July, 1854; married 

Rebecca Ryan. 

78. S.^R.\H Ann Bringhurst', born 3 July, 1794; married. 24 January, 

1821, William Gregory, and had daughter: 79. Rachel B.', born 
20 January, 1823, and died young. 

80. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 8 November, 1802; died 27 December, 

1873 ; married William Lloyd Maddock. 

81. Mary Bringhurst", born 14 October. 1805; died 26 September, 1835; 

married William Wilson Longstreth. 

82. John Bringhurst', born 12 October, iSio; died 2^ February, 1871 ; 

married Rebecca Lydia Graves. 

33. DR. JOSEPH BRINGHURST', son of James Bringhurst* by 
his wife Anne Pole, was born at Philadelphia, 6 October, 1767; died at 
Wilmington, Delaware, 26 July, 1834. He received a liberal education, 
and then studied medicine and engaged in practice therein. In 1793 he 
removed to Wilmington, where he established a drug business in con- 
nection with his profession, a custom quite common with the physicians 
of that day. His office, drug-store, and residence were at what is now 
317 Market Street. Wilmington, where the drug business is still carried 
on by members of the Bringhurst family, in which it has continued for 
one hundred and seven years. 

Dr. Bringhurst took a deep interest in public affairs. In 1799 he was 
clerk to the borough of Wilmington, and in 1802 was appointed by 
President Jefferson postmaster of that place, and was reappointed by 
Presidents Madison and Monroe, but in 1820, on Monroe's election to a 
second term, he was succeeded by Nicholas Gilpin Williamson, Esq""^. 

Dr. Bringhurst was on terms of intimate friendship with the eminent 
Colonel John Dickinson, author of the " Farmer's Letters," Revolution- 
ary patriot, member of the Continental Congress and of the Convention 
that framed the Constitution of the United States, and among the family 
papers of Dr. Bringhurst are many letters from Mr. Dickinson. One of 

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these is a letter of congratulation to Dr. and Mrs. Bringhurst on the 
birth of their daughter Mary Dickinson Bringhurst, who was named in 
honor of Mrs. Dickinson. Dr. Bringhurst was with Mr. Dickinson 
almost daily during his last illness, and was probably the last man to con- 
verse with him. He was at his bedside the second and third nights 
preceding his death, and made notes of his interviews, which he gave to 
Mr. Dickinson's daughter. These came into the hands of Dr. Charles J. 
Stille when writing the " Life of John Dickinson," and bear this endorse- 
ment : " Notes taken by J. Bringhurst of a conversation he had with my 
ever dear and lamented father on the night of the nth, and another two 
nights previous to his decease." As these " notes" relate to some of 
the most important public events then transpiring, they seem worth 
recording, and are given in a note below.* Dr. Bringhurst notified 

* " nth [February-, 1808]. To-night my venerable friend J. Dickinson was so much affected by his fever 
that his mind was much disturbed, but amidst all his flights the benevolence of his heart was eminently con- 
spicuous. After giving him a drink, I observed that I hoped he felt pleasant. ' No,' he replied, ' I can expe- 
rience no pleasure while my fellow-beings are oppressed by such heavy calamities.' Shortly afterwards he 

said, ' I wish ' What dost thou wish, my dear friend ? ' 1 wish,' he answered, ' happiness to all mankind 

—the blessings of peace to all the nations of the earth, and these are the constant subjects of my morning 
and evening prayers.' 

" i2th. About midnight the dear and venerable man seemed to be deeply concerned for the affairs of our 
country, and distressed by the threatening prospects which were crowding upon it. He expressed such deep 
anxiety that I was grieved by his affliction and wished to give a more agreeable turn to his meditations. I 
asked whether he had heard the late news. ' What news ?' he inquired. That there was a prospect of peace 
for our country, I answered. ' No,' he obser%ed. ' My dear friend, thou surprises! me. Let me see the 
National Intelligencer, for I wish to be made acquainted with the chain of events.' I informed him that the 
paper had not arrived at my office, but from other papers I learned that France had offered to guarantee the 
independence of the United States, and to present us the Floridas. He replied, with much earnestness, 
'Why, my friend, thou astonishest me. That event is so very unexpected and extraordinary that 1 can 
scarcely credit it.' I observed that the matter seemed to be stated as a fact. ' By what course did the news 
arrive,' he inquired, ' by New York or Norfolk ?' I replied that I knew not from which port it came, but I had 
seen it in two papers, and that it was cause of great joy. ' Yes,' he exclaimed, with great emphasis and ani- 
mation of countenance, ' it fills my whole heart with joy. At the very moment when the most awful calami- 
ties were threatening our beloved country, when the most terrible disasters were pressing upon us, such a 
happy change is altogether unexpected and amazing. But what could possibly have induced Bonaparte to 
act a part so magnanimous? While he was in the full career of victory— preparing to crush England and 
ready to shake us to pieces— to stop in the midst of his race and make so great a sacrifice is truly wonderful. 
What could have induced him to do so?' I observed that perhaps he desired to excell in fame all other Con- 
querors—that in addition to the character of a great warrior he wished to shine on the page of history as the 
splendid benefactor of mankind. ' True,' he said, ' that is a just observation, it is very probable. But I 
strongly suspect that the Court of Petersburg has been concerned in this business, and would not settle terms 
with him, untill he performed some act that should show his disposition to insure the future peace of the 
world.' That is possible, I answered, but come from what it may, it was a source of great comfort. ' Yes,' 
he exclaimed; 'did I not tell thee some time ago that man's extremity was God's opportunity for Glory? 
Oh, my dear friend, thou hast made my heart glow with joy— there is an image of gratitude impressed upon 
my heart that 1 cannot express and words cannot describe. Oh, thou Great— Glorious and all perfect Being 
—Thou Sovereign and Lord of the Universe— who livest from Everlasting to Everlasting— we most humbly 
pray thee, thro' the merits of thy Son, the blessed Jesus, our Saviour, permit us to entreat the blessings of 
thy peace for the Nations, and to thank thee, most awful and adorable God, for the treasures of thy Good- 
ness ' Here his voice became inaudible.*' 

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President Jefferson of Mr. Dickinson's decease, and the President 
acknowledged the same in a letter, a fac-simile of which is herewith 
interleaved. 

Dr. Bringhurst was intimately acquainted with the noted Robert 
Fulton, and through him became interested in steam navigation on the 
Delaware River, and a fac-simile of one of Fulton's letters to him on 
this subject is also herewith inserted. He was also much interested 
in all matters which tended to advance the material concerns of Wil- 
mington, and was an active promoter and partner in the first cotton 
factory erected in Delaware. (See accompanying portrait.) He sent 
some specimens of the productions of the factory to Henry Clay, who 
acknowledged the same in a letter, of which a fac-simile is herewith 
inserted. 

Dr. Bringhurst possessed a well-cultivated mind, and was an easy 
and graceful writer, as is evidenced by his manuscripts, which compose 
several volumes.* Under date of 4 March, 1796, he wrote to William 
Cowper, the celebrated poet, and in 1800 the letter was printed in Eng- 
land under the title, " Copy of a Letter from a Young Man, a Quaker, in 
Pennsylvania, to the late William Coivper, Poet," and the same was 
later reprinted in the British Friend. 

He married at Wilmington, 11 July, 1799. Deborah, daughter of 
Ziba Ferris, of that place, by his wife Edith, a daughter of Benjamin 
Sharpless, of the well-known family of that name in Chester County, 
Pennsylvania. She was born 2 March, 1773; died 20 August, 1844. 

Children : 

83. William Bringhurst', born 25 September, 1800; died 14 June, 1818. 

84. Mary Dickinson Bringhurst', born 4 July, 1806; died 12 January, 

1886; married George Vernon Moody. 

85. Joseph Bringhurst', born 26 September, 1807; died 14 March, 1880; 

married Anna Richardson. 

86. Edward Bringhurst', born 22 May, 1809; died 8 February, 1884; mar- 

ried Sarah Shipley. 

87. Ziba Ferris Bringhurst', born 19 September, 1812; died 6 March, 

1836; married Amy Dixon. 

* The " GenealogA- of the Sharpless Family," in mentioning Dr. Bringhurst, says, " He was gifted with 
an intellect of no common order; he had cultivated and improved it by extensive reading, and nature had 
supplied him with an easy elocution, which enabled him to communicate with clearness and facility, and 
rendered his conversation a source of instruction and pleasure." 

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42. GEORGE BRINGHURST', son of John Bringhurst* by his 
wife Elizabeth Sliute, was born at Germantown, 20 June, 1755, and 
died at Pliiladelphia, 29 December, 1829, where tombstones in Clirist 
Church burying-ground mark his last resting-place, and that of his wife. 
He was one of the patriots of the Revolution, and in 1776 served as 
second lieutenant of a company in the battalion of the Flying Camp of 
Philadelphia County, commanded by Colonel Lewis.* Mr. Bringhurst 
followed the business of his father, and became one of the leading car- 
riage and coach-builders of his day in Philadelphia. From 1816 until 
his decease he was a vestryman of Christ Church, and was a trustee of 
Christ Church Hospital. He married, 27 July, 1780, Anna Clarkson, 
born at Philadelphia, 23 June, 1758; died there, 21 February, 181 3; 
daughter of Honorable Matthew Clarkson, who was three times mayor 
of Philadelphia. Mr. Bringhurst and Robert Ralston, Esq^e, were the 
executors of Mr. Clarkson's will. (See Notes on the Clarkson 
Family.) 

Children, born at Philadelphia : 

88. Matthew Bringhurst', born 28 November, 1781 ; died 20 April, 1782. 

89. John Gull Bringhurst", born 13 December, 1782; died in 1817 ; mar- 

ried Susan Millis. 

90. Mary Anna Bringhurst', born 29 December, 1783: died 15 Septem- 

ber, 1856; married Thomas Mifflin Hall. 

91. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 2 December, 1785; died in 1861. 

92. Susanna Bringhurst", born 2 March, 1787. 

93. Cornelia Bringhurst'. born 3 September, 1788; died 5 March, 1872; 

married Samuel Bonnell. 

94. Sarah Bringhurst', born 20 April, 1792; died in 1873. 

95. Bernard Bickham Bringhurst', born 25 March, 1793 ; died young. 

96. Gerard Clarkson Bringhurst', born 3 October, 1794. 

97. Robert Ralston Bringhurst', born 4 May, 1797; died 23 December, 

1863 ; married Mary Wood. 

48. JESSE BRINGHURST^ son of John Bringhurst* by his wife 
Elizabeth Shute, was born at Germantown, in 1770, and died there, 24 
April, 1822, in the fifty-second year of his age. He married, 13 Septem- 
ber, 1791, Mildred Keen, born in 1771 ; died 5 December, 1840, in the 
seventieth year of her age. She was a daughter of John Keen, Esq''e, 
by his wife Mildred Cooke, daughter of James Cooke, of London, Eng- 

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land. Both Mr. Bringhurst and his wife are buried in Hood's Cemetery, 
Germantown. He succeeded his father in the coach-building business 
at Germantown, and later conducted that business at Philadelphia. His 
portrait, also that of his wife, are herewith inserted. 

Children : 

98. Mildred Shute Bkinchur-St', born 11 June, 1792; died i September, 

1793- 

99. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 25 February, 1794; died 7 September, 

1876; married John Gamble. 
100. John Keen Bringhurst", born 6 September, 1795; died 30 June, 1868; 

married Elizabeth Culnan. 
loi. Thomas Bringhurst", born 18 May, 1797; died 3 September, 1798. 

102. Mary Shute Bringhurst", born 15 November, 1798; died 8 May, 

1888; married (l), 6 August, 1818, John J. Souder; (2) David 
Gregory. 

103. Margaret Simmons Bringhurst', born 17 November, 1800; died 8 

April, 1807. 

104. George Bringhurst*, born 14 September, 1804; died 8 July, 1828. 

105. Matthias Keen Bringhurst', born ii October, 1806; died 18 Octo- 

ber, 1841 ; married Rebecca Sharp. 

49. THOMAS BRINGHURST^ son of John Bringhurst^ by his 
wife EHzabeth Shute, was born at Germantown, 21 June, 1775; died 
there 8 August, 1849; married, by Right Rev. WilHam White, 18 June, 
1801, to Mary Fraley, horn at Germantown, 18 July, 1781; died at 
Philadelphia, 24 October, 1858; daughter of Henry Fraley,* of Ger- 
mantown, by his wife Susanna Margaretta Rice. Mr. Bringhurst was 

• Hrnrv Frai.ry was born in Switzerland, 27 March, 1744, and died at Germantown, Philadelphia, 20 Au- 
g:ust, 1S21. His parents were Heinrich and Elizabeth Froli. His father was a " house carpenter," and Henry 
succeeded him and carried on building business for many years. Some of the houses built by him are still 
standing. In 1796 he and his son John Fraley purchased of Joseph Shippen a tract of land on Manheim Street 
in the neighborhood of what is now the Manheim Cricket Grounds. They immediately divided it into about 
fifty building-lots, and styled it the Village of Manheim (Deed Book D 63, page 304). A cross street, running 
at right angles with Manheim. which was evidently the main street, was called Federal. A street parallel to 
Manheim was called Columbia, and another Tammany. But the lots were bought by persons of means from 
Philadelphia, and instead of a populous village, of which all trace is lost, they were consolidated into a few 
large countr>-seats. Thus Fraley became one of the first, if not the first, of the suburban town projectors of 
Philadelphia. He was a member of Jacob Sommer's Company of Philadelphia Associators during the Revo- 
lution. His carpenter-shops, which were situated on the site of the present St. Stephen's Methodist Church, 
were burned by the British during their occupation of Philadelphia. Tradition says that these .shops had 
been used for the manufacture of gun-carriages by the Americans. His house stood at what is now the en- 
trance to St. Stephen's Church. In later years he was a drum-maker, which business was afterwards carried 
on for many years by his son-in-law, Thomas Bringhurst. Watson, in his *' Annals of Philadelphia," men- 
tions that Washington was a frequent visitor at Fraley*s carpenter-shops, and that Fraley had taken part in 
some of Washington's campaigns.— J. Harrv Bockics, 

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a prominent citizen of Germantown, and was one of the leading coach- 
builders of his day. A fac-simile of his business card is on the opposite 
page. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Bringhurst are herewith inserted. 

Children, born at Germantown : 

io6. Margaketta Simmons Bringhurst', born 2 July, 1802; died 2 Decem- 
ber, i88i ; married Francis William Bockius. 

107. Rebecca Bringhurst', born 18 December, 1803 ; died 25 August, 

1849; married Jacob Crhall. 

108. Elizabeth Ann Bringhurst,' born 26 February, 1805 ; died 22 Novem- 

ber, 183s; married, 17 March, 1828, James Whitehead. No issue. 

109. Susanna Fraley Bringhurst', born 17 March, 1807; died 27 December, 

1894; married Benjamin Whittington. 
no. Sarah Bringhurst', born 15 October, 1808; died recently. 

111. Mary Shute Bringhurst', born 14 April, 1810; died 27 February, 

1895. 

112. John Henry Bringhurst', born 21 January, 1812; died 24 December, 

1898; married (i) Eliza Blair; (2) Louisa Bedford. 

113. George Bringhurst', born 22 November, 1813; died 10 April, 1820. 

114. Frances Louisa Bringhurst', born 21 June. 1816; married Dr. Wil- 

liam Smith. No issue. 

115. Martha Jane Bringhurst', born 9 March, 1819; died 3 December, 

1892 ; married Dr. Charles A. Smith. 

116. Emeline Catharine Bringhurst', born 19 May, 1821 ; died 19 May, 

1890. 

117. Cornelia Elinor Bringhurst', born 16 May, 1823; died 9 January, 

1898; married Lewis G. Wunder. 

58. CLEMENT BRINGHURST^, son of George Bringhurst* by 
his wife Sarah Trump, was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, and died 
at St. Louis, Missouri, in i860. His will, dated 20 July, i860, was 
proved at Philadelphia, 18 October, same year. The date of his mar- 
riage or the name of his wife have not been ascertained. She probably 
died in the lifetime of her husband, as she is not mentioned in his will. 

Children, born at Germantown : 

118. Mary Elizabeth Bringhurst', married William Stewart Garvin, and 

died without issue. 

119. Augustus L. Bringhurst', born circa 1803; died in 1852; married 

Maria Louise Waters. 

120. George Clement Bringhurst", died after i860, unmarried and without 

issue. He was an executor of his father's will. 
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59. ROBERT BRINGHURST^ son of George Bringhurst* by his 
wife Sarah Trump, was born at Germantown, in 1778, and died there, 
2 November, 1832. He married, 2 June, 1803, Margaret Brewster, born 
22 March, 1786; daughter of Wihiam Brewster by his wife EHzabeth,* 
a daughter of Peter Barndollar by his wife Margaret Wilkinson. After 
the deatii of Mr. Bringhurst, she is said to have married, as second hus- 
band, one Batsford, and to have died in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Children, born at Germantown : 

121. William Robert Bringhurst", born 20 October, 1804; died 10 Feb- 

ruary, 1880; married (i) Julia Hulings; (2) Virginia Manlove. 

122. Tudor Robert Bringhurst", born in 1808; died July, 1843; married 

Caroline Shingle. 

123. Cordelia Bringhurst", died at the home of her brother William, at 

Clarksville, Tennessee, 18 August, 1887, aged about eighty years ; 
married Johnson. 

63. TACY BRINGHURST^, daughter of Samuel Bringhurst^ by 
his wife Susanna Keen, was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 5 
March, 1776; died there, 6 August, 1840; married, 9 October, 1794, 
Samuel Ashmead, Esqi^e, of Germantown, born there, 29 January, 1771 ; 
died there, 3 March, 1856; son of Captain Jacob Ashmead f by his wife 
Mary Naglee. Both Mr. Ashmead and his wife are buried in Hood's 
Cemetery, Germantown. Mr. Ashmead resided for a time in Mont- 
gomery County, and on 3 August, 1807, was commissioned by Governor 
McKean first lieutenant of Fourth Troop of Horse, First Brigade, Sec- 
ond Division, of the militia of Bucks and Montgomery Counties, to serve 
four years. 

Children: 

124. Samuel Ashmead', born 19 December, 1795; died 31 March, 1864; 

married, 26 April, 1817, Susan Colladay, and had issue. 

125. William Ashmead", born 30 October, 1797. 

* She is named in the will of Peter Knight, in 179S, as a niece of his wife. Mr. Knight was a wealthy 
merchant at Philadelphia, and married a Miss Wilkinson. 

t Captain Jacob Ashmead was born at Germantown, 30 May, 1742; died there, 10 July, 1S14; son of 
Samuel Ashmead by his wife Esther Morgan, and grandson of John Ashmead by his wife Sarah Sellers. 
Captain Ashmead was an officer in the Revolution. On 27 October, 1775, he was commissioned first lieu- 
tenant and promoted to captain, 6 September, 1776, First Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel John Philip De 
Hass, Sen', and in October the same year he became captain in the Second Pennsylvania, Continental Line. 
He remained in active service until 16 May, 1780, when he resigned his commission. 

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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



126. John Ashmead", born August, 1799. 

127. Charles Ashmead', born 1801 ; died in infancy. 

128. Edward Ashmead", born 5 December, 1803 ; died 22 May, 1849. 

129. Joseph Keen Ashmead', born in 1806. 

130. James H. Ashmead', born 8 October, 1810. 

131. Susan Keen Ashmead", born 8 October, 1814; married John Diller, 

Esqre, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, who died 19 September, 1888. 

68. MARY BRINGHURST', daughter of Samuel Bringhurst* by 
his wife Susanna Keen, was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 24 
August, 1787; died at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 28 July, 1871 ; married, 
28 November, 181 1, William Lehman, born at Germantown, 14 Febru- 
ary, 1785; died at Lebanon, 17 September, i860; son of Benjamin 
Lehman * by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Keyser, of German- 
town. Mr. Lehman was for many years a prominent builder and ma- 
chinist at Germantown. About 1824 he was appointed superintendent 
of carpentry of the Union Canal Company, and, to assume the duties 
of the position, he removed to Womelsdorf, Berks County, where he 
resided one year. Then in the progress of the work he removed to Leba- 
non, having been appointed the resident engineer and general superin- 
tendent of the Canal, which position he retained until 1848, when he 
resigned his charge, and was succeeded by his son, Benjamin Bringhurst 
Lehman, who had long been his assistant in the various duties of his 
office. Mr. Lehman was one of the founders of the Lebanon Bank, and 
for many years a director of the same. A fuller sketch of his life than 
is here given will be found in " History of Lebanon County" (1883), 
pages 279, 280. 

Children, all born at Germantown : 

132. Lorenzo Levering Lehman', born 25 September, 1812; died at Leba- 

non, 23 September, 1858; married Elizabeth Gergas, of German- 
town. 

133. Benjamin Bringhurst Lehman", died young. 

134. Elhanan Lehman", born 26 June, 1815; died 2 November, 1820. 

135. Benjamin Bringhurst Lehman', born 8 September, 1818; died at 

* Godfrey Lehman emigrated from Herrnhuth, Germany, in 1731, and settled at Germantown, where he 
died 4 October, 1756. His son Christian emigrated at the same time, and became a prominent convejancer 
and sur\'eyor, and was commissioned by Governor John Penn a notary public. He was born 7 November, 
1714, and died 2S December, 1774. leaving among his children a son Benjamin, named in the text, who was 
bom at Germantown, 14 January, 1760, and died there, 7 January, 1840. 

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Lebanon, November, 1891 ; married, 10 October, 1839, Susanna 
Mustin, of Philadelphia. 

136. Susanna E. Lehman', born 10 August, 1821 ; died at Philadelphia, 

13 June, 1850 ; married Dr. Robert S. Woddrop, of Philadelphia. 

137. Samuel Bringhurst Lehman", born 8 February, 1824; died at Phila- 

delphia, 13 June, 1900 ; married Elizabeth Goodman, of German- 
town. 

69. ISRAEL BRINGHURST«, eldest child of William Bringhurst* 
by his wife Mary Morris, was born at Germantown, 28 February, 1770; 
died at The Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 27 December, 
181 1. He married, 27 September, 1792, Mary Lewis, born at Gwynedd. 
Pennsylvania, 4 July, 1771 ; died at The Trappe, 11 August, 1846; 
daughter of Isaac Lewis by his wife Sarah Jenkins. Mr. Bringhurst 
learned the trade of coach-making, and the Philadelphia Directory of 
1791 styles him "coach-maker," with 167 Chestnut Street as his place 
of business. He shortly afterwards removed to The Trappe, Montgomery 
County, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. 

Children, probably all born at The Trappe : 

138. William Morris Bringhurst", born 20 April, 1794; died unmarried, 

4 May, 1857. 

139. Ends Lewis Bringhurst", born .^o January, 1797; died unmarried, at 

Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 11 February, 1863. He was graduated 
at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and 
became a successful practitioner in medicine at Lavvrenceville, 
Chester County, Pennsylvania. 

140. Wright Armat Bringhurst", born 29 June, 1799; died at The Trappe, 

2 October, 1876. He was a prominent citizen of Montgomery County, 
and represented that county in the Legislature in 1835/36. He 
died unmarried and without issue, and left an estate of one hun- 
dred and sixty thousand dollars, over one hundred thousand dol- 
lars of which he bequeathed to Upper Providence township and 
Norristown and Pottstown boroughs, to be invested in dwelling- 
houses, and the income to be used for the benefit of the poor. 

141. Israel Bringhurst", born 23 July, 1804: was accidentally killed 13 

May, 1816. 

142. Anne Bringhurst", born 8 March, 1807 ; died without issue, 12 May, 

1880; married Dr. William B. Hahn. 

143. Lewis Bartle.son Bringhurst", born 6 September, 1810. He was 

graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and died 
unmarried, at Louisville, Kentucky, 26 November, 1832. 

144. Mary Matilda Bringhurst", born 21 November, 1801 ; died 12 June, 

1834; married Francis Hobson. 
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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



74. ELIZABETH BRINGHURST^ youngest child of William 
Bringhursf' by his wife Mary Morris, was born at Germantown, 21 
January, 1787; died 24 November, 1850; married, 22 June, 1803, 
Adam Herkness, who died at Philadelphia, 24 April, 1832. A news- 
paper obituary describes him as a " native of Scotland, and for many 
years a respectable inhabitant of this city." 



Children : 



145. Mary Herkness", born 28 September, 1804; died 21 December, 1830. 

146. Walter Herkness", born 27 October, 1807; died 25 June, 1840. 

147. William Herkness', born 20 February, 1810; died 17 October, 1833. 

148. Adam Herkness", born 25 January, 1812; died 14 January, 1830. 

149. Elizabeth Herkness", born 25 April, 1815; died 30 April, 1834. 

150. Alfred Morris Herkness", born 2 August, 1818; died 12 February, 

1898. 

151. Benjamin Leander Herkness", born 20 April, 1821 ; died 5 July, 

1897; married, 26 October, 1847, Mary Jane Lodor, and had 
issue: 152. Alfred Morris Herkness', born 11 August, 1848. 
153. Benjamin Theodore Herkness', born 31 May, 1853; mar- 
ried, 2 April, 1874, Virginia Palmer. 154. Leander Herkness', 
born 31 March, 1858; died 9 July, 1867. 
155. Isabella Herkness", born 3 July, 1825; died 9 May, 1846. 




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76. JOSEPH BRINGHURST«, son of James Bring- 
hurst-', Jimi", by his first wife Rachel Bettle, was born at 
Philadelphia, 18 February, 1790; died at Lionville, 
Chester County, Pennsylvania, 23 August, 1863; mar- 
ried, circa 181 1, Elizabeth, daughter of David Evans, of 
Chester County. She died before her husband. Mr. 
Bringhurst carried on business as a watchmaker at Philadelphia, which he 
relinquished on account of failing health and settled on a farm at Lion- 






ville, where he died. 

Children : 

156. Samuel Bringhurst', born 21 December, 1812; died 12 April, 1888; 

married Eleanor Beitler. 

157. Thomas Bringhurst', born 10 August, 1814; died 24 March, 1861. 

158. Joseph Bringhurst', born 10 November, 1816; married Susan Kern, 

and both are deceased.* 

159. William Bringhurst', born 8 November, 1818; died 17 February, 

1883 ; married Ann Dilworth. 

160. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 9 November, 1820; married, January, 

1853, Azariah Carson, born at Churchtown, Lancaster County, 
Pennsylvania, 16 January, 1824 ; and now resides at Coatesville, 
Pennsylvania. Issue: 161. Frank R. C.\rson', born 24 August, 
1855; married, 6 January, 1881, Emma M. Hiester. 162. Annetta 
W. Carson", born 17 August, 1858; married George W. Patterson. 
163. Anna E. Carson', born 18 October, i860; married John Long 
Fredericks. 

164. John Bringhurst', born 25 September, 1823 ; died 6 June, 1827. 

165. Anna Bringhurst', born 31 August, 1825; married Adam Staley. 

166. John Bringhurst', born 27 June, 1838; married (i) Eliza March; 

(2) Rebecca Williamson; (3) Elizabeth Slack. 

77. JAMES BRINGHURST^, second son of James Bringhurst^ 
Junr, by his first wife Rachel Bettle, was born at Philadelphia, 4 April, 
1792; died at Wilmington, Delaware, 14 July, 1854; married, 28 April, 
1818, Rebecca Ryan, born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 3 August, 
1793; died at Wilmington, 4 March, 1845; daughter of John Ryan. 
Mr. Bringhurst was for a time engaged at Philadelphia in the manufac- 

* An accurate record of the family of Joseph and Susan (Kern) Bringhurst has not been secured. They 
are said to have had four children, — to wit : Elizabeth, who married Benjamin Lanning; Susan, who married 
Harry Roth ; Anna, who married William Bowen ; and William. 

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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



ture of shoes, but later removed to Wilmington, where, for some years 
previous to his death, he was librarian of the Free Library in that city. 

Children : 

167. James Bringhurst', born 24 February, 1819; died at Jerseyville. Illi- 

nois, 23 June, 1870; married Mary Ryan. 

168. Hannah Harlan Bringhurst', born 13 February. 1821. 

169. Sarah Ryan Bringhurst', born 27 September, 1823. 

170. Henry Ryan Bringhurst', born 20 September, 1825; died 25 Octo- 

ber, 1899; married Elizabeth Ashburnham Smith. 

171. Mary Bringhurst', born 24 February, 1829. 

80. ELIZABETH BRINGHURST^, daughter of James Bring- 
hurst*. JuiT", by his second wife Ann Carroll, was born at Philadelphia, 
8 November, 1802; died there, 27 December, 1873; married, 24 Feb- 
ruary, 1823, William Lloyd Maddock, born at Philadelphia, 27 Febru- 
ary, 1804; died there, 19 May, 1867; son of Ezekiel Edwards Maddock 
by his wife Phebe Hilderburn. Mr. Maddock was a merchant. 

Children : 

172. Anna Maddock', born 14 November, 1823; died 7 December, 1869; 

married Samuel Baugh. 

173. Phebe Maddock', born 31 October, 1825; died 28 May, 1829. 

174. Mary L. Maddock', born 22 December, 1827; died 17 March, 1880; 

married Edward J. Crippen, a merchant grocer of Philadelphia. 

175. William L. Maddock', born 21 November, 1831 ; died 30 December. 

1873, unmarried. 

176. John B. Maddock', born 30 September, 1835; died 12 October, 1876; 

married Emeline Holland. 

177. Henry Maddock', born 15 June, 1838; died 22 December, 1840. 

178. Edward Maddock', born 20 March, 1841 ; married, 12 June, 1883, Mar- 

garet Elizabeth Eccles. 

81. MARY BRINGHURST*, daughter of James Bringhurst^ Junr, 
by his second wife Ann Carroll, was born at Philadelphia, 14 October, 
1805 ; died there, 26 September, 1835; married, 23 October, 1827, Wil- 
liam Wilson Longstreth, born at Philadelphia, 14 Noveinber, 1802; 
died there, 3 June, 1829 ; son of Joseph Longstreth by his wife Margaret 
McKee. Mr. Longstreth was engaged many years as a hardware mer- 
chant, on Market Street, Philadelphia, being a member of the firm of 

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Longstreth & Boldin. He became interested in coal transportation, and 
took charge of the Beaver Meadow Coal and Railroad Company, and 
succeeded in bringing that corporation into a prosperous condition. He 
was for some years president of the company, the interests of which 
became closely identified with the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and 
in 1864 was merged into the latter. Mr. Longstreth was chosen presi- 
dent, the late Judge Asa Packer being vice-president. This position he 
held until 1868, when he resigned, and Judge Packer was chosen to 
succeed him. Mr. Longstreth, however, continued a member of the 
board and chairman of the Finance Committee, and was the owner of a 
large interest in the road. 

Children, born at Philadelphia: 

179. Joseph Longstreth', born 16 August, 1828; died 24 December, 1850; 

married Sarah Atlee. 

180. James Longstreth', born in 1830; died in infancy. 

181. William Longstreth', born 14 April, 1832; married, 16 November, 

1866, Ada Zilla Smith, born 17 September, 1838. 

182. Margaret Longstreth', born 12 January, 1835 ; married Horace J. 

Smith. 



82. JOHN BRINGHURST", son of James Bringhurst^ Junr, by 
his second wife Ann Carroll, was born at Philadelphia, 12 October, 
1810; died there, 23 February, 1871 ; married Rebecca Lydia Graves, 
daughter of Bartholomew Graves, Esqi'e, who was Clerk of the Court of 
Quarter Sessions of the County of Philadelphia, from 1830 until 1836. 
Mrs. Bringhurst died there, 16 May, 1880. Mr. Bringhurst was a 
druggist, and for some years prior to his death his place of business 
was at Tenth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. He resided at his 
death at 2002 Chestnut Street, where his youngest daughter now (1901) 
resides. 

Children, born at Philadelphia : 

183. William Longstreth Bringhurst', died in New Jersey, 6 January, 
1S84; married (l), September, 1863, Ellen McNamee, born at 
Philadelphia, 25 October, 1839; died there, 18 May, 1877; daugh- 
ter of John McNamee by his wife Ann Gallagher; married (2), 
7 March, 1879, Laura Sharp. Issue, all of whom, except the 
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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



youngest, were by the first wife: 184. Mary Elizabeth Bring- 
hurst", born 25 January, 1865; married John P. Sweeney. 185. 
John Bringhurst', born 30 December, 1868. 186. William Bring- 
hurst", born 11 October, 1870. 187. Charles Bringhurst', born 
27 May, 1873. 188. Edward Bringhurst', born 13 September, 
1875. 189. Alfred Bringhurst", born 11 September, 1880. 

190. Mary Graves Bringhurst', died 17 November, 1897; married Mor- 

decai Dawson Evans, who died 23 March, 1898. 

191. Rebecca Lydia Bringhurst'. 

85. JOSEPH BRINGHURST^, third child of Dr. Joseph Bring- 
hurst^ by his wife Deborah Ferris, was born at Wihnington, Delaware, 
26 September, 1807; died there, 14 March, 1880; married, 6 October, 
1842, Anna Richardson, born at Wilmington, 11 August, 1816; died 
there, 28 May, 1889; daugliter of John Richardson, of Wilmington, by 
his wife Margaret, daughter of Joseph Paxon by his wife Sarah Rod- 
man. 

Mr. Bringhurst succeeded to the drug business of his father, from 
which he retired in 1852. In 1832 he became a founder of the Wilming- 
ton Savings Fund, with which institution he continued to be identified 
until his death, serving as its president the last eight years of his life. 
In 1843 lie was chosen a director of the Bank of Delaware, and about 
i860 he was chosen to the directorate of the Philadelphia, Wilmington 
and Baltimore Railroad, and was for many years one of the most active 
and trusted officers in the management of that corporation. In 1864 he 
was made a director of the Delaware Railroad, and later became a 
director in the Chester Creek and Delaware and Dorchester Railroads, 
the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Delaware, the Wilmington Coal 
Gas Company, and of other corporations, and at the time of his death he 
still retained a place in the boards of management of all the corpora- 
tions before mentioned. No man in Wilmington was more largely 
trusted, and at his decease he was regarded as the wealthiest man in 
that city. Governor Ponder, of Delaware, sought to compliment Mr. 
Bringhurst by appointing him on his staff, with the rank of colonel. Mr. 
Bringhurst, however, never took any part in such capacity, as he was 
throughout his life a consistent and valued member of the Society of 
Friends. A Wilmington newspaper, editorially commenting upon his 
death, said : 

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SIXTH GENERATION 



" Mr. Joseph Bringhurst, whose death last evening is chronicled in our local col- 
umns, was a very well-known and successful business man whose business activity did 
not end with his formal retirement from the avocation in which he laid the foundations 
of his large fortune. There are few men, indeed, in our midst whose death will deprive 
so many boards of directors of the services of a useful and cheerful companion. It is 
principally as a business man that Mr. Bringhurst was known to the community at 
large, as he never was ostentatious in his charities, yet we have yet to hear of any 
worthy charity that ever applied in vain to him for help, and his benevolence was by no 
mean.'; confined to this assistance of organized charitable work. He was, indeed, ' a 
cheerful giver,' but, as a rule, preferred to be his own almoner, and many a poor family 
will learn of his death with a sincere sorrow, which those who merely knew him as a 
.successful business man would never suspect. But it is not the recipients of his direct 
charity alone who will remember him with gratitude. Though he went about it quietly, 
he did probably as much as any other one man who has lived in this community in giving 
a start to many now successful business men, to whom he loaned capital from no 
selfish motives and at no little risk, out of pure kindness of heart and a desire to see 
others get along as he himself had done." 

Children, born at Wilmington : 

192. John Rich.\rdson Bringhurst', born 8 January, 1845; married (i) 

Elizabeth Tatnall ; (2) Annie S. Stokes; (3) Esther Harlan Wilson. 

193. Marg.\ret Richardson Bringhurst', born 13 November, 1847. 

194. Ann.\ Bringhurst', born 9 October, 1856; died 16 May, 1878. 

86. EDWARD BRINGHURST*, fourth child of Dr. Joseph Bring- 
hurst^ by his wife Deborah Ferris, was born at Wilmington, Delaware, 
22 May, 1809; died there, 8 February, 1884; married, 8 May, 1832, 
Sarah Shipley, born 28 May, 1812; died 13 October, 1896; daughter of 
Samuel Shipley,* of Wilmington, by his wife Elizabeth Jefferis, daugh- 
ter of Captain James Jefferis. Mr. Bringhurst was a director of the 
National Bank of Delaware, the Newcastle County Insurance Company, 
and the Wilmington Savings Fund, and a member of the Society for 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Children's Home, and the 
Fountain Society, being at the time of his death president of the latter 
institution. He also filled many positions of private trust. 

* Samuei, Shipley was the elder brother of Joseph Shipley, the late London financier, and member of the 
banking firm of Brown, Shipley & Co. They were sons of Joseph Shipley, the elder, by his wife Mary Levis, 
and grandsons of William Shipley by his wife Mary Tatnall. William Shipley \vas born in Leicestershire, 
England, in 1693, a?id in 1725 came to Pennsylvania, later removing to what is now Wilmington, Delaware, of 
which town he has been styled " the virtual founder." In 1735 he built a brick mansion house at the southwest 
comer of Fourth and Shipley Streets, a portrait of which is given in Scharf's " History of Delaware." page 
632. " It was the largest building within the present limits of Delaware." He died there in 1768. 

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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



Children, born at Wilmington : 

195. Samuel Bringhurst', born 27 May, 1833 ; died 26 October, 1834. 

196. Edward Bringhurst', born 10 October, 1835 ; married Anna J. Webb. 

197. Ferris Bringhurst', born 10 October, 1837; died 16 March, 1871; 

married, 5 December, 1861, Mary W., daughter of Mahlon Belts, 
Esqf^, by his wife Mary Seal. 

87. ZIBA FERRIS BRINGHURST", youngest child of Dr. Joseph 
Bringhurst'' by his wife Deborah Ferris, was born at Wilmington, Dela- 
ware, 19 September, 1812; died there, 6 March, 1836; married, in 1832, 
Amy Dixon, who died 3 November, 1846; daughter of Isaac Dixon by 
his wife Margaret Roberts. 

Children, born at Wilmington : 

198. William Bringhurst', born 20 April, 1833 ; died at Philadelphia, 

27 January, 1898; married Amanda Melvina James. 

199. Margaret Roberts Bringhurst', born 28 September, 1834; died 12 

July, 1857. 

89. JOHN GULL BRINGHURST", son of George Bringhurst* 
by his wife Anna Clarkson, was born at Philadelphia, 13 December, 
1782; died there in 1817; married, 4 September, 1808, Susan Millis. 
In the Philadelphia Business Directories of 1808, 1809, and 1810, Mr. 
Bringhurst is styled " Druggist." 

Children, born at Philadelphia : 

200. Anna Clarkson Bringhurst'. married William S. Torr. 

201. George Hunter Bringhurst', born i November, 1810; died 20 Febru- 

ary, 1889; married Nancy Trott. 

90. MARY ANNA BRINGHURST", daughter of George Bring- 
hurst^ by his wife Anna Clarkson, was born at Philadelphia, 29 Decem- 
ber, 1783; and died there, 15 September, 1856; married, 29 January, 
1803, Thomas Mifflin Hall, Esq^e, of Philadelphia; bom there, 21 Janu- 
ary, 1777; died there, 8 September, 1818; son of John Hall by his wife 
Margaret Nesmith. He resided on Sixth Street, in a large double house 
on the present site of the Ledger Building. 

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SIXTH GENERATION 



Children : 



202. An'xa Hall', born 21 December, 1803; died 29 August, 1845. 

203. John Hall', born 11 August, 1806; died 10 May, 1894; was gradu- 

ated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1823 ; studied law and 
was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1827, and practised law 
until 1832, when he studied theology, and entered the ministry of 
the Presbyterian Church ; was pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church of Trenton, New Jersey, from 1841 until 1884, when he be- 
came pastor emeritus ; received the degree of D.D. from Princeton 
in 1850, and was an author of some note. He married (i), 20 
December, 1827, Mary Margaret Garrett, born 20 May, 1805 ; died 
4 June, 1830; daughter of Levi Garrett; (2) Mary Mitchell 
Keppele, born 28 February, 1805; died 14 October, 1855; daughter 
of Hon. Michael Keppele, who was Mayor of Philadelphia in 181 1. 

204. Marg.\ret Hall', born 24 August, 1808: died 17 December, 1895; 

married, 29 January, 1829, George Rowell Garrett, born 13 Octo- 
ber, 1802; died 26 April, 1881. 

205. George Bringhurst Hall', born 30 July, 1810; died 9 April, 1844; 

married, 6 December, 1831, Mary Stevenson. 

206. Edward Augustus Hall', born 13 October, 1813 : died 28 June, 1885; 

entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1829. and left in his 
junior year to study medicine, and became a physician. He mar- 
ried, 20 November, 1851. Catharine Moore, daughter of Thomas 
Lea. 

207. Charles Hall', born 4 February, 1816; died 24 July, 1853; graduated 

at the University of Pennsylvania in 1834, and became a merchant 
in Philadelphia. He married, 25 September, 1838, Maria, daughter 
of Samuel Brooks. 



93. CORNELIA CLARKSON BRINGHURST«, daughter of 
George Bringhurst^ by his wife Anna Clarkson, was born at Philadel- 
piiia, 3 September, 1788; died there. 5 Marcli, 1872: married, 8 Decem- 
ber, 1 818, Samuel Bonnell, born at Philadelphia, 6 August, 1790; died 
there. May, 1862; son of Charles Bonnell. 

Children, born at Philadelphia : 

208. Mary Ann Bonnell', born circa 1822. 

209. Samuel Bonnell', born 29 February, 1824 ; died 20 January, 1885 ; 

married Mary S. Oliver. 

210. George Bringhurst Bonnell', born 28 August, 1825; married, 28 

May, 1858, Elizabeth L. Dobleman, bom 14 February, 1829 ; died 
19 July, 1859. 

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211. Charles Russell Bonnell', born 6 May, 1827; died suddenly, 26 

December, i8go. He graduated at the Central High School, after 
which he entered mercantile business as a clerk, but subsequently 
became a divinity student. He was ordained a deacon by Bishop 
Potter, and elevated to the priesthood by Bishop Williams. His 
first charge was Calvary Church, then at Front and Margaretta 
Streets, Philadelphia, whence he was called to St. Thomas's 
Church, Whitemarsh. He subsequently went West to engage in 
missionary work, and labored successfully in Salem and Portland, 
Oregon, and in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington Territory. On 
his return East in 1877, he took charge of a church in Allentown, 
Pennsylvania, for a year, and thence went to Lock Haven, in that 
State, for four years. After a winter spent in Bermuda, he helped 
to start a little church in Eagle's Mere, Pennsylvania, and in 1886, 
organized St. Stephen's Church at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a 
mission of St. David's Church, Manayunk, in which rectorship he 
was serving at his death. He married Elizabeth Boyd Kester, 
who, with two children, survived him. 

212. Cornelia Bonnell', born August, 1829. 

213. Sallie S. Bonnell', married Henry H. Houston, Esq^^, born 3 Octo- 

ber, 1820; died 21 June, 1895. Mr. Houston was a resident of 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, and a prominent and wealthy capi- 
talist. For some years preceding his death he was a director of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad. 

214. William White Bonnell', died in infancy. 

97. ROBERT RALSTON BRINGHURST^, son of George Briiig- 
hurst^ by his wife Anna Clarkson, was born at Philadelphia, 4 May, 
1797, and died there, 23 December, 1863: married, 13 November, 1817, 
Mary Wood, born in Ireland, 12 August, 1798; died at Philadelphia, 25 
September, 1851. He was a cabinet-maker, but later engaged in the 
undertaking business. He was a member of Christ Church. 

Children, born at Philadelphia : 

215. Thomas Hall Bringhurst', born 20 August, 1819; died 23 May, 1899; 

married (i) Mary J. Stewart; (2) Elizabeth Ross. 

216. Mary Wood Bringhurst', born 31 May, 1821 ; died at Atlantic City, 

4 August, 1890; married John S. Hopper. 

217. Anna Clarkson Bringhurst', born 14 January, 1823 ; died at Atlan- 

tic City, 29 July, 1893. 

218. Washington Henry Bringhurst', born 9 October, 1824; married 

Anna Torr. 

219. Sarah Bringhurst', born 7 March, 1826; died 2 January, 1898; 

married, 11 December, 1851, Samuel L. Tanguy, of Philadelphia, 
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SIXTH GENERATION 



now residing at Logansport, Indiana ; born 28 September, 1824. 
Issue: 220. George B. Tanguy', born 20 September, 1S52; mar- 
ried, 12 October, 1887, Frances Close. 221. William B. Tanguy'. 

222. George Bringhurst", born 16 October, 1827; married Emma Seal. 

223. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 3 February, 1829; died 4 February, 

1842. 

224. Robert Morris Bringhurst', born 9 October, 1831 ; died 28 January, 

1876; married Alice Rooke. 

225. William White Bringhurst'. born 28 January, 1834; died 6 August, 

1868; married Jennie R. Kendrick. 

99. ELIZABETH BRINGHURST^, daughter of Jesse Bringhurst* 
by his wife Mildred Keen, was born at Germantown, 25 February, 1794; 
died there, 7 September, 1876; married, 24 October, 1818, John Gamble, 
born at Parish Berton Overy, Leicestershire, England, 20 February, 
1796; died at Philadelphia, 17 June, 1878; son of John Gamble by his 
wife Mary Pateman. Mr. Gamble was a wealthy morocco and leather 
manufacturer. 



Children : 



226. John Keen Gamble', born 13 August, 1818; died 17 June, 1891; mar- 

ried, 25 October, 1840, Margaret R. Larison, born 25 October, 
1819; died 21 April, 1859. Mr. Gamble was a partner of his 
father in the morocco and leather business many years. In 1856, 
1857, and 1858, he was a member of Select Council of Philadelphia 
from the Twenty-second Ward, and a member of the Board of 
School Directors of that ward from 1870 until 1879. 

227. George Washington Gamble', born 23 June. 1821 ; married, 13 Feb- 

ruary, 1843, his cousin Mary Souder, daughter of John Keen 
Bringhurst, born 3 August, 1823 ; died 4 August, 1885. Mr. 
Gamble was a wealthy manufacturer, and a member of Councils 
from the Thirteenth Ward of Philadelphia from 1858 until i860. 

228. Mildred Gamble', born 2 March, 1823 ; died 2 April, 1824. 

229. Charles Gamble', born i November, 1824; died 15 July, 1825. 

230. Robert Bringhurst Gamble', born 15 January, 1827; married, 27 

April, 1848, Margaretta Sutor Batchelder, born 23 December, 1826. 

231. William Pateman Gamble', born 20 October, 1828; died 4 February, 

1880; married (l) Jane Josephine Farren, born 21 July, 1828; 
died 19 July, 1867 ; (2) Mary Littlefield. 

232. Mary Elizabeth Gamble', born 4 April, 1830; died 19 April, 1899; 

married Lemuel Burgess Justice. 

233. Edmund Nelson Gamble', born 17 September, 1831 ; died 23 April, 

1883 ; married Caroline Bachman. 
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234. Emma Matilda Gamble', born 14 October, 1835; died 7 January, 
1887; married (i) Wilson Brown, died 13 March, 1859; (2) 
Joseph P. Keen; (3), 24 June, 1878, Abraham H. Parker. 



100. JOHN KEEN BRINGHURST«, son of Jesse Bringhurse by 
his wife Mildred Keen, was born at Germantown, 6 September, 1795; 
died at Philadelphia, 30 June, 1868; married, 10 August, 1822. Eliza- 
beth Culnan, born 8 March, 1796; died at Philadelphia, 2 February, 
1885; daughter of Charles Culnan * by his wife Margaret. Mr. Bring- 
hurst was a printer and publisher, being the first of the family to adopt 
the occupation of his ancestor, John Bringhurst, of London. He was at 
one time a member of the printing firm of Stavely & Bringhurst, pub- 
lishers of the Episcopal Recorder. On his tombstone in Hood's Cemetery, 
Germantown, he is styled " John Keen Bringhurst, Printer." 

Children, born at Philadelphia : 

235. Mary Souder Bringhurst', born 3 August, 1823; died 4 August, 

1885 ; married, 13 February, 1843, George Washington Gamble 
(227). 

236. Anna Maria Bringhurst', born 4 November, 1826 ; married, 2 

March, 1856, Franklin Starne Miles, born 1828: died 8 August, 
1883; son of Benjamin and Esther Starne Miles. Issue: 237. 
Mildred Cook Miles', born 29 May, 1858. 238. Benjamin F. 
Miles', born 14 May, i860. 
239. Jesse Bringhurst', born 10 February, 1830; married, 8 September, 
1853, Sarah Crandall Perry, born at Norristown, Montgomery 
County, Pennsylvania, 12 April, 1832; daughter of Samuel Perry 
by his wife Isabelle Wilson. Issue: 240. Frank Perry Bring- 
hurst', born at Norristown, 16 July, 1854; married, 5 October. 
1896, Ella Camden, born in France; daughter of Robert Camden, 
of Philadelphia, by his wife Ella Theobald. 

105. MATTHIAS KEEN BRINGHURST^, son of Jesse Bring- 
hurst"* by his wife Mildred Keen, was born at Germantown, 1 1 October, 
1806; died at Milton. Florida. 18 October, 1841 ; married Rebecca 
Sharp, who died at Brighton, Illinois, in July, 1870: daughter of Charles 
and Rebecca Sharp, of Philadelphia. 

* Charles Cui.n.^n was buried in St. Peter's chuich-yard, lo September. iSiS, " in his S5th year," and his 
wife, Margaret, was buried there, 25 November. 1847, " in her 91st year," 

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Children, born at Philadelphia : 

241. George Washington Brinchurst', born 27 April, 1831; married (1) 

Cornelia Anna Hanley; (2) Rebecca Brown. 

242. Charles Sharp Bringhurst', born 25 December, 1836; is a carriage- 

maker, and resides at St. Louis, Missouri; married, 2 June, 1869, 
Matah Cordelia Cantrill, born at Ashley, Illinois; daughter of 
Empson Bird Cantrill by his wife Sarah Parel. Issue: 243. 
Franklin Bringhurst', born 2 May, 1870; died 29 September, 
1876. 

106. MARGARETTA SIMMONS BRINGHURST", eldest child 
o: Thomas Bringhurst'* by his wife Mary Fraley, was born at German- 
town, 2 July, 1802; died at Philadelphia, 2 December, 1881 ; married, 
at Germantown, in 1825, Francis William Bockius, born at German- 
town, 10 December, 1802; died at Hanover, Illinois, 18 February, 1869; 
son of Joseph Bockius by his wife Margaret Rex. The father, Joseph 
Bockius,* was a school-teacher, and when a very young man the son 
also engaged in teaching, which he continued until within a few years of 
his death. His first school, so far as known, was in the old stone build- 
ing which still stands in front of the residence of the late William Wynne 
Wister, on Germantown Avenue, opposite Bringhurst Street. About 
1829 he was selected by his friend Reuben Haines to put into operation 
in Germantown the Lancasterian system of teaching. This school was 

♦Joseph Bockius was a son of Francis William Bockius and Susanna Miller, and was bora 15 October, 
1776, at Germantown. He married Margaret, daughter of Abraham and Anna Rex, of Chestnut Hill. About 
1800 he became teacher of the old Mt. Airy School. He was prominent in local and State politics, and was a 
member of the Legislature and auditor of Philadelphia County. He was a prominent member of the Mar- 
ket Square German Reformed Church, and vigorously opposed the movement of a large part of the congre- 
gation to join the Presbytery, which movement, being unsuccessful at that time, led to the organization of 
the First Presbyterian Church of Germantown. He died May 18, 1840. His father, Francis William (ist), 
born in Germantown, March 12, 1754. die"! May 3'. '^37, was a son of Johann Gottfried Bockius and Philli- 
pina Catharina Marvilius. He was a prominent member of Market Square church and an organizer of the 
old Franklin Fire Company, and a member of Gerardus Schlatter's Company of Associators of Chestnut 
Hill during the Revolution. His property at Main and Gowen Streets became part of the Gowen estate. He 
married Susanna Miller, daughter of Sebastian Miller and Barbara Rosch. who originally owned the Gowen 
property. His nephew, Samuel Mechlin Bockius, of Richmond, Virginia, married (i) Betty Carter Bassett, a 
descendant of the Carters and Bassetts of Virginia : I2) Mary .Ann Ritchie Brooke, granddaughter of Robert 
Brooke, an old time governor of Virginia. Francis William Bockius's grandfather, Lodovic Bockius, died 
" en voyage to this province of Pennsylvania," in 1741, leaving three sons,— Johannes Wendell, Johann Gott- 
fried, and Peter Lodovic, known as John. Gottfried, and Peter,— and daughter Anna Maria, wife of Baltzer 
Ernst. John and Gottfried were both trustees of the Union School (Germantown Academy), and are both 
mentioned as trustees, or elders, of the German Reformed Church (Market Square), in the Charter granted by 
the Penns in 1770. Gottfried was a member of the German Society of Philadelphia, and belonged to James 
Hasletfs Company of Revolutionary Associators. His wife Phillipina Catharina was the daughter of Johan- 
nes Heinrich Marvilius, " Churpfaelzer (Rhenish Palatinate) collector for the High Court at Stromberg, in 
1719," and Maria, his wife.— Contributed by J. Harry Bockius, son of Thomas Bringhurst Bockius. 

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on the site of Lister's auction house on Haines Street, then Methodist 
Lane. He continued teaching the Lancasterian school for about eight 
years, when he took charge of the old school on Queen Lane, Falls of 
Schuylkill. His roll of scholars of the Lancasterian and Queen Lane 
schools are still in possession of his descendants. Li 1844 he moved to 
Galena, Illinois, and shortly afterwards settled on a farm near Hanover, 
in that State, where he resumed school-teaching. In his earlier years 
he was prominent in Germantown politics, and was secretary of many of 
the local political and social organizations of that place. 

Children : 

244. Joseph Henry Bockius', born 15 August, 1826; died January, 1894; 

married Jane Hurst. 

245. Thom.-vs Bringhurst Bockius', born 17 February, 1829; married 

Elizabeth L. Birchall. 

246. Jacob Miller Bockius', born 18 December, 1830; married Amanda 

Brown. He changed his Christian name from Ja:ob to James. 

247. Mary Fraley Bockius', born 16 August, 1833; died 31 December, 

1873 ; married A. Jackson Harris. 

248. Elizabeth Fraley Bockius', born 5 May, 1840; married Henry Blish. 

249. Charles Franklin Bockius', born 11 January, 1836; died April, 

1858. 

250. Camelia Elinor Bockius', born 15 July, 1844; died June, 1846. 

251. Emeline Catherine Bockius', born 15 July, 1844; married H. Robert 

Bain. 

107. REBECCA BRINGHURST«, daughter of Thomas Bring- 
hurst^ by his wife Mary Fraley, was born at Germantown, 18 December, 
1803; died at Philadelphia, 25 August, 1849; married, 17 April, 1828, 
by the Rev. Mr. Rodney, to Jacob Crhall; born 15 September, 1804; 
died 6 September, 1853. 

Children : 

252. Mary Anna Crhall', born 4 February, 1829; died 4 November, 1890; 

married 8 May, 1851, James Fletcher Budd, Esqre, a member of 
the Philadelphia bar. 

253. Thomas Bringhurst Crhall', born 6 January, 1830; died 29 August, 

1830. 

254. William Henry Fraley Crhall', born 26 July, 1831 ; died i August, 

1837. 

255. Charles Engle Crhall', born 4 October, 1832. 

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256. Elizabeth Fraley Crhall', born 17 May, 1834; married (i) Sam- 

uel Newton Myers, born 18 August, 1834; died 18 July, 1863; 
(2) Edward S. Pritchard, born 18 March, 1820; died 5 October, 

1895. 

257. Susannah Margaretta Crhall', born 25 January, 1836; died 2 April, 

1900. 

258. Rebecca Milner Crhall', born 10 January, 1838; died 26 April, 1881. 

109. SUSANNA FRALEY BRINGHURST«, daughter of Thomas 
Bringhurst^ by his wife Mary Fraley, was born at Germantown, Penn- 
sylvania, 17 March, 1807; died at Philadelphia, 27 December, 1894; 
married, 25 August, 183 1, Benjamin Whittington, born at Sheffield, 
England, 21 November, 1806; died at Philadelphia, 2 November, 1886; 
son of Benjamin Whittington by his wife Sarah Darling. 

Children : 

259. Henry Baeder Whittington', born in 1832; married, 25 March, i860, 

Sarah Elizabeth McCord. 
259^- Sarah Ann Whittington, born 13 September, 1833; died 15 March, 

1834. 

260. Benjamin Whittington', born 4 April, 1835 ; married, 5 September, 

1868, Mary Elizabeth Ash. 

261. Thomas Bringhurst Whittington', born 9 November, 1836; died 4 

October, 1837. 

262. Mary Bringhurst Whittington', born 18 February, 1838. 

263. Susanna Fraley Whittington', born 10 February. 1840; married, 29 

September, 1886, Joseph H. Hinchman. 

264. George Washington Whittington', born 6 October, 1841 ; married, 

9 May, 1865, Barbara Cecelia Preuss. 

265. Frances Louisa Whittington', born 24 May, 1843 ; married, 28 Sep- 

tember, 1881, Charles Henry Smith. 

266. Sallie Darling Whittington', born 13 August, 1845. 

267. John Bringhurst Whittington', born 13 April, 1847 ; married, 22 

October, 1872, Lyde Storey. 

268. William Penn Whittington', born 27 February. 1849; died 18 July, 

1851. 

269. Louis Augustus Whittington', born 20 June, 1851 ; married (i), 

28 February, 1878, Caroline Elizabeth Mooney, who died 5 April, 
1893; (2), 6 October, 1898, Charlotte Peddle. 

112. COLONEL JOHN HENRY BRINGHURST«, son of 
Thomas Bringhurst^ by his wife Mary Fraley, was born at Germantown, 

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21 January, 1812; and died at Philadelphia, 24 December, 1898. He 
was educated in the common schools of his native place, and taught 
school for a few terms. He was then given a business training by his 
father, and when a young man he began the manufacture of saws, and 
later engaged in the manufacture of other iron and steel products; event- 
ually he became a member of the iron and steel firm of Verree & Co. 
This firm was afterwards organized into a stock company, known as the 
Philadelphia Iron and Steel Company, and Colonel Bringhurst became 
the secretary and treasurer, and later its president. In 1885, owing to 
the depression in the iron trade, especially in the East, the company dis- 
solved, and he retired from active business. After the inauguration of 
President Lincoln, Colonel Bringhurst's name was urged for the post- 
mastership of Philadelphia by some of the leading business men* of that 
city, but he failed to receive the appointment. Colonel Bringhurst was 
a member of Select Council in 1859 and i860; for some years a 
director of the Pennsylvania Railroad ; was one of the original directors 
of the Consolidation National Bank, and held a similar office in the 
Northern Saving Fund Safe Deposit and Trust Company for many 
years preceding his death ; was a member of the Historical Society of 
Pennsylvania, and was one of the original subscribers to its publication 
fund. 

During his residence at Germantown he was much interested in 
securing public improvements, and he commanded for a time the once 
famous " Germantown Blues," and served in the militia of Pennsylvania 
in various offices from captain to colonel. 

Throughout his life Colonel Bringhurst took an active part in 
religious affairs, uniting with St. Luke's Episcopal Church, German- 
town, of which he was a vestryman, transferring his membership to St. 
Thomas's Church, Whitemarsh, and later to the Church of the Advent, 
Philadelphia, where he was a vestryman for some years. 

A few days after his death, the directors of the Consolidation National 
Bank met and unanimously adopted the following minute : 

* Among his endorsers were Drexel & Co., James, Kent, Santee & Co., Myers, Kirkpatrick & Co., J. 
Gillingham Fell, Charles Gambles & Co., Hoyt, Sprague & Co., Thomas A. Biddle, Henry L. Gaw, Winthrop 
Cunningham & Son, Joseph E. Temple, Richard Wood, Charles Wurts, Wilcox Bros. & Co., Benjamin Bul- 
lock& Sons, Josiah Bacon, William Wister, Fred. A Comley, Cathenvood & Co., Elliott & Dunn, Trederick, 
Stokes & Co., Eyre & Landell, John S. Bispham, and Alexander J. Derbyshire. 

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" The directors of this bank have learned with deep sorrow of the death of their 
colleague, Colonel John H. Bringhurst, who has been associated with them since 
1858, and for forty years deeply interested in the management of the bank. His kindly 
personal traits, no less than his valuable services as a wise and faithful business coun- 
sellor, have always secured for him their sincere regard and appreciation. 

" We desire to express our sense of the loss we and the conmiunity have sustained 
by his death, our esteem for him as a man, and our regard for him as a companion and 
friend. He was a man of the highest integrity, an enterprising and useful citizen, 
active and zealous in the discharge of the duties of the many private and public trusts 
he held during his long and useful life. 

" We, his fellow directors, recall his usefulness and devoted services as a director, 
and mourn the loss of his genial, kindly, and faithful friendship. His place in their 
hearts cannot be easily filled. 

" Resolved, Tliat this minute be published, and a copy of the same be sent to his 
family." 

Colonel Bringhurst married (i). by Rev. George Boyd, 28 July, 
1835, Eliza Blair, born at Philadelphia. 28 June, 181 5; died at Phila- 
delphia, 2 October, 1855 ; daughter of James Blair * by his wife Jean 
Vicar; (2), Louisa Bedford, born 17 March, 181 1; died 3 July, 1895. 

Children, the five eldest born at Germantown, and the others at 

Philadelphia ; 

270. Je.\n Vicar Bringhurst', born 21 May, 1836; died 21 July. 1859; 
married, 30 September, 1855, James Verree, born in 1810. and died 
in 1876, son of James Verree by his wife Susan Paul, a brother of 
Hon. John P. V^erree. Issue: 271. John P.\ul Bringhurst 
Verree', born 15 July, 1856; died 22 February, 1864. 

272. Thom,\s Bringhurst', born 17 November, 1837; died 2 August, 1892; 

was captain in a company of three months' volunteers, from Phila- 
delphia, in 1861, and married Mary K. Vaughan. 

273. Mary Eliz.abeth Bri.vghurst'. born 22 October. 1839: married. Octo- 

ber, i860, Llewellyn T. Barr, born in 1837; died in February, 1889. 
Mr. Barr was a merchant at Cincinnati, Ohio. Issue : 274. Cl.\ra 
Violetta Barr', born in 1861 ; married, i October, 1890. John 
Sterling Deans, a civil engineer, residing at Phoenixville, Pennsyl- 
vania. 
275. Rebecca Bringhurst', born 9 August, 1841 ; married, 10 August. 1865, 
Josiah Freed Slifer, born 15 February, 1829; son of Jacob Slifer 
by his wife Nannah Smith. Issue, born at Philadelphia : 276. 
Walter Bringhurst Slifer', born 5 June. 1866. 277. John Henry 
Slifer', born 17 November, 1868. 278. Mary Bringhurst Slifer', 

* James Blair married Jean \'icar, 3 January*, 1S13. He died 31 .\ugust, i860, aged seventy-one years; 
and his wife, born at Paris. 31 December, 1791. died at Philadelphia, 8 October, 1882. 

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born 26 June, 1871 ; married, 25 November, i80, Rev. William 
Reese Scott, D.D., Rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church at 
Hazleton, Pennsylvania, son of Dr. William Reese Scott by his wife 
Annetta Margaret Mengle. 279. Paul Bringhurst Slifer', born 
7 April, 1874. 280. Anna Floyd Slifer', born 13 March, 1S79; 
died 3 November, 1882. 

281. Anna Bringhurst', born 17 March, 1844; married, 3 April, 1862, 
David Floyd, born at Philadelphia, 27 March, 1840; died at 
Waverly Heights, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 6 June, 1885 ; 
son of James Floyd by his wife Jane Freeburn. Issue : 282. Mary 
Bringhurst Floyd', born 25 January, 1865; married, 11 April, 
1894, Harry J. Keser, son of Carl William Kescr by his wife 
Johann Katharine Ruckert. 283. Cornelia Eleanor Flovd", born 
4 December, 1869; died 22 June, 1877. 

284. Cornelia Eleanor Bringhurst', born 21 May, 1846; married, 21 
June, 1886, John Hart Michener, born in Montgomery County, 
Pennsylvania, 31 January, 1830; son of William Michener by his 
wife Catharine Hart. Mr. Michener resides in Chicago, and is a 
member of the firm of Michener Bros. & Co., of that city, pork- 
packers and provision dealers, and of the firm of J. H. Michener & 
Co., Philadelphia. Issue: 285. Fannie Michener', born 13 Sep- 
tember, 1867 ; died 26 February, 1872. 

286. Emmaline Bringhurst', born 15 June, 1848; died 9 July, 1848. 

287. John Henry Bringhurst', Jun", born 6 August, 1849; died July, 1873. 

288. Margaret Blair Bringhurst', born 3 August, 1851; married (i) 

Charles T. Smith; (2) . 

289. Clara Violetta Bringhurst', born 22 July, 1853; died 12 August, 

1891 ; married, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 16 October, 1871, 
George Kenneth Mecke, a manufacturer, born at Philadelphia, 24 
April, 1840, son of George Mecke by his wife Martha Jewell. 
Issue: 290. Mary Kate Mecke', born 12 September, 1873; mar- 
ried, 15 February, 1890. Henry Van Reid Hill. 291. Clara Bring- 
hurst Mecke', born 20 June, 1875 ; married, 4 July, 1898, Henry 
Ferdinand Leberman. 

115. MARTHA JANE BRINGHURST«, daughter of Thomas 
Bringhurst^ by his wife Mary Fraley, was born at Germantown, Penn- 
sylvania, 9 March, 1819; died at Norristown, Pennsyh-ania, 3 December, 
1892; married, 18 May, 1843. Charles Augustus Smith, born at Phila- 
delphia, 19 August, 1809; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, 19 March, 1861 ; 
son of Charles Louis Smith (Carl Ludwick Schmidt or Smit) by his 
wife Mary Ann Dorothea Henekel, a daughter of Dr. John Michael 
Henekel. Mr. Smith studied medicine, but did not graduate, as he 
turned his attention to chemistry and became a pharmaceutical chemist. 

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He was a founder of the College of Pharmacy in Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
was for some years its president. At the time of his death he was 
editor and owner of the trade paper. The Druggist, published at Cincin- 
nati. He wrote for medical and pharmaceutical papers and magazines, 
and was a member of the Masonic Fraternity. 

Children : 

292. Mary Bringhurst Smith,' born 7 February, 1844; married, 18 Novem- 
ber, i86g, John Alexander Mahon, M.D. ; and had : 293. John 
Alexander Mahon', born 7 February, 1871 ; died 21 October, 
1872. 

294. Irene Elizabeth Smith', born 21 April, 1848; married, September, 

1876, Rev. J. A. Bauman; died 18 April, 1877. 

295. Fannie Jeannette Bliss Smith', born 27 January, 1856; died 23 

May, 1873. 

117. CORNELIA ELINOR BRINGHURST", twelfth and young- 
est child of Thomas Bringhurst^ by his wife Mary Fraley, was born 
at German town, 16 May. 1823; died 9 January, 1898; married, 28 
May, 1846, Lewis Gilliam Wunder, born at Germantown, 7 Febru- 
ary, 1823; died at Philadelphia, 6 February, 1901 ; son of Jacob N. 
Wunder. The son, Lewis G., received an appointment in the Philadel- 
phia Post-Office under Postmaster Wright, 8 July, 1849, and continu- 
ously occupied positions in that office until the November preceding his 
death. He was made chief clerk under Postmaster Bingham in 1871, 
which place he held under Postmasters Bingham, Fairman, and Huide- 
koper, and for a portion of Mr. Harrity's term. In 1887 he was ap- 
pointed superintendent of the Inquiry Division. Mr. Wunder had the 
reputation of being the best-informed man in the office, and all difficult 
questions were invariably referred to him. He was known to most of 
the business men of the city, and had their friendship. 

Children : 

296. Frank Augustus Wunder', born 14 November, 1848; married Ada 

Crawford. 

297. Thomas Bringhurst Wunder', born 15 June, 1850; married Ella 

Thorn. 

298. Ella Sickles Wunder', born 7 October, 1852 ; married, 18 October, 

1899, Clarence Addison Willis, a professor in Girard College. 
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299. Ida Virginia Wunder', born 13 October, 1853. 

300. John Henry Wunder', born 31 January, 1856; married Ella Lippin- 

cott. 

301. Lewis Jeanes Wunder', born September, about i860; died 8 June, 

1861. 

119. AUGUSTUS L. BRINGHURST«, son of Clement Bring- 
hurst'*, was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1803; died at Alex- 
andria, Louisiana, in 1852. He was a notary public and clerk of the 
court, and afterwards a planter, at Alexandria, where he settled as a 
young man about 1832. He married, 29 March, 1838, Maria Louise 
Waters, born at Washington, Kentucky, 21 April, 1817; died at Alex- 
andria, Louisiana, 21 April, 1879; daughter of Captain William Waters, 
of Washington, Kentucky, by his wife Sarah Sellers, and sister of Hon. 
George Richard Waters, of Alexandria, Louisiana. 

Children, born at Alexandria : 

302. Albert Clement Bringhurst', born 13 February, 1839; was killed in 

action on the Rapidan, Virginia, 26 November, 1863, while serving 
as captain of the " Stafford Guards" in the Confederate army. 

303. Robert Wilton Bringhurst', born 13 December, 1840; married Judith 

Taliaferro Leckie. 

304. William Stuart Bringhurst', born 27 August, 1844; married Nettie 

Powers Houston. 

305. Charles Ernest Bringhurst', born 9 November, 1847; married Sallie 

Sellers Waters. 

306. Francis Augustus Bringhurst', born 28 November, 1850; died at 

Clarksville, Texas ; married Louise Marshall, and had one child : 
307. Maria Louise Bringhurst'. 

121. WILLIAM ROBERT BRINGHURST^, ESQRe, eldest son 
of Robert Bringhurst^ by his wife Margaret Brewster, was born at Ger- 
mantown, 20 October, 1804; died at Clarksville, Tennessee, 10 Febru- 
ary, 1880. He was a carriage-builder, and resided at Germantown until 
about 1830, when he removed to Clarksville, where he continued carriage- 
building until his death. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, a 
prominent citizen of Clarksville, and twice mayor of that city, being 
first chosen to the office in 1847. He married (i), in 1828, Julia 
Hulings, born in Pennsylvania, 30 May, 1808; died at Clarksville, 14 

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July, 1863; daughter of Thomas Hulings * by his second wife Rebecca 
Berryhill. He married (2), 17 January, 1867, Virginia Manlove, born 
near Richmond, Virginia, 22 December, 1828, daughter of Christopher 
Manlove by his wife Lucy Wright Carter. 

Children : 

308. Rebecca Hulings Bringhurst', born 20 May, 1832; died i March, 
1880; married (i), October, 1852, Theophilus Plummer, who died 
26 July, 1859; (2), December, 1864, Edmond Ware, who died 
about 1870; (3) Thaddeus Phuiinier, who died about 1875. Issue 
by first marriage: 309. Theophilus Plummer', born at Clarks- 
ville, 24 July, 1852, and resides at St. Louis, Missouri. 

310. Robert Bringhurst', born 8 January, 1835. During the Civil War he 

enHsted in the Confederate army, and while serving as adjutant of 
the Forty-ninth Tennessee Regiment, he was wounded in battle in 
front of Atlanta, Georgia, 28 July, 1864. Before he had recovered 
from his wound, and while still using a crutch, he volunteered to 
go into battle at Franklin, Tennessee, 24 November, 1864, and after 
he had entered the Union breastworks, he received seven wounds, 
from which he died in the battle-field hospital, 30th of same month. 

311. Ellen Matilda Bringhurst', born 23 September, 1838; married, 18 

May, 1858, Benjamin Franklin Poston, born at Clarksville, 20 
April, 1832, son of John Hamill Poston by his wife Nancy Nelson. 
Issue: 312. Frank Hulings Poston', born 8 May, 1874. 313. 
Philander Dake Poston*, born 7 February, 1880. 

314. Edward Slater Bringhurst', born 10 June, 1842; married Mattie 

Eliza Champion. 

315. William Rufus Bringhurst", born 4 November, 1844; married 

Sarah Scott. 

316. Julia Bringhurst', born 30 May, 1847; married, ri June, 1873, Bur- 

gess Henry Scott, born at Eddyville, Kentucky, 28 September, 
1843, son of William Henry Scott by his wife Mary Jane Green- 
field. Issue: 317. Julia Bryan Scott', born 11 June, 1874. 318. 
Robert Henry Scott', born 7 September, 1876. 319. Walter 
Greenfield Scott', born 13 August, 1881 ; died 15 May, 1882. 
320. Edward Gkef.nkield Scott', born 8 July, 1883. 321. William 
Rufus Scott', born 24 December, 1886. 322. Mary Scott', born 24 
December, 1886. 

323. Christopher Manlove Bringhurst', born 22 March, 1868; married. 

324. Joseph Robert Bringhurst', born 8 October, 1870; died 20 October, 

1879. 

* Thomas Hulings was a son of Marcus Hulings. and was born 3 March, 1755, and died at Buffalo 
township. Perry County, Pennsylvania, in March, iSoS, where he was prominent. His first wife was Eliza- 
beth, a daughter of General Frederick Watts, of Pennsylvania. (See Biographical Encyclopaedia of Dauphin 
County, Pennsylvania, 121.) 

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122. TUDOR ROBERT BRINGHURST«, son of Robert Bring- 
hurst^ by his wife Margaret Brewster, was born at Germantown, in 
1808; died at Swedes Ford, Montgomery County, July, 1843; mar- 
ried, 8 August, 1832, Caroline Shingle, born at Germantown, February, 
1814; died there, 23 December, 1891 ; daughter of Christian Shingle 
by his wife Catharine Winder. 

Children, born at Germantown : 

325. Robert Tudor Bringhurst', born 12 September, 1833 ; died 20 Sep- 

tember, 1835. 

326. Charles Shingle Bringhurst', born 31 January, 1835; married, 28 

March, 1864, Sarah A. Moore, daughter of James HamiUon Moore 
by his wife Harriet Fleming. Issue, born at Germantown : 327. 
Robert Tudor Bringhurst*, born 31 August, 1866; married, May, 
1886, Sarah Brambley. 328. Harriet Fleming Bringhurst\ born 
9 August, 1868; died 5 November, 1874. 329. Horace Bring- 
hurst', born 9 December, 1872; died 31 December, 1872. 330. 
Charles Sumpter Bringhurst', born 15 November, 1870; died 7 
November, 1874. 331. Franklin Bringhurst', born 11 October, 
1874. 332- Charles Edward Bringhurst', born 4 April, 1878. 

144. MARY MATILDA BRINGHURST^, daughter of Israel 
Bringhurst^ by his wife Mary Lewis, was born at The Trappe, Mont- 
gomery County, Pennsylvania, 21 November, 1801 ; died at Limerick 
(now Royersford), in that county, 12 June, 1834; married, 11 January, 
1829, Francis Hobson, born at Poughkeepsie, New York, 10 October, 
1803; died at Reading, Pennsylvania, 24 August, 1874; son of John 
Hobson by his wife Penelope Turner. He was a large landowner. 

Children : 

333. Frank M. Hobson', born 22 January, 1830; married EHzabeth Got- 
waltz. Mr. Hobson resides at Collegeville, Montgomery County, 
Pennsylvania, and is a merchant and surveyor; has been trustee, 
secretary, and treasurer of Ursinus College; director of the Iron 
Bank of Phoenixville, and of the First National Bank of Norris- 
town, Pennsylvania. Issue : 334- Freeland G. Hobson', a member 
of the Montgomery County Bar; married Ella M. Hendricks. 
335. M.^RY M. Hobson', married Rev. O. P. Smith. 
336. Sarah Hobson', born 16 October, 183 1 ; married (i), 11 June, 1861, 
Dr. Daniel D. Detwiler, of Montgomery County, who died 18 June, 
1863; (2) Rev. Henry W. Super, late president of Ursinus Col- 
lege, who died 26 November, 1897. Issue : 337. Stanley Hobson 
Detwiler', born 20 March. 1862; died 2 September, 1862. 
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156. SAMUEL BRINGHURST', eldest child of 
Joseph Bringhurst® by his wife Elizabeth Evans, was 
born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 December, 1812; 
died at Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah, 12 April, 
1888; married, in 1838, Eleanor Beitler, born in Ches- 
ter County, Pennsylvania, 25 December, 1814; died at 
Taylorsville, Utah, 30 July, 1888. Mr. Bringhurst was a wagon- and 
carriage-builder, and conducted that business at Lionville, Uwchlan town- 
ship, Chester County, until 1845, when he and his wife joined the Mor- 
mon Church, and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, the centre of those of the 
Mormon faith. This was before the church adopted the doctrine of 
polygamy. In the exodus of the Mormons to the West in 1847, ^r, 
Bringhurst, with his wife and their three children, removed to the Salt 
Lake Valley, and endured the hardships incident to the settlement of 



a new country. 



Children : 



338. William Augustus Bringhurst", born .'6 Jaiuiary, 1839: married 
(l) Selinda Dalby Palmer; (2) Susan A. Steele; (3) Mary J. 
Stapeley. 

33g. Anna Bringhurst', born 12 March, 1842. 

340. Henry L. Bringhurst', born 13 August, 1844; died 21 March, 1846. 

341. Robert Peirce Bringhurst', born 25 November, 1846. 

342. Samuel Bringhurst', born 7 April, 1850. 

343. Eleanor Bringhurst', twin of Samuel, born 7 April, 1850. 

344. John Beitler Bringhurst', born 13 June, 1854; married Emma 

Frances Tripp. 

345. Mary Elizabeth Bringhurst', twin of John Beitler, born 14 June, 

1854, shortly after midnight. 

346. Louis Bringhurst', born 24 September, 1856. 



159. WILLIAM BRINGHURST^ ESQRe, son of Joseph Bring- 
hurst" by his wife Elizabeth Evans, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
vania, 8 November, 1818; died at Springville, Utah, 17 February, 1883; 
married, 25 March, 1845, ^""^ Dilworth, born in Uwchlan township, 
Chester County, Pennsylvania, 12 February, 1821 ; died at Springville, 
Utah, 25 January, 1898; daughter of Caleb Dilworth by his wife Eliza 

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Woollerton. About the time of his marriag-e, Mr. Bringhiirst united 
with the Mormon Church, and removed to Nauvoo, lUinois, where his 
eldest child was born. Shortly afterwards he joined the Mormon emigra- 
tion to Utah, and began life there as one of tlie pioneers of the Territory. 
He was one of the first settlers of Springville, and served several years 
in the councils of that city, and was a member of the Territorial Legis- 
lature. He was prominent in educational matters, and was one of the 
original donors of the Brigham Young Academy, and one of its board 
of directors. He was also a director of the Provo Woollen Mill Com- 
pany. His business occupations were those of a merchant, farmer, and 
stock-raiser, and at the time of his death he was Bishop of the Mormon 
Church at Springville. 



Children : 



347. Charles Harper Bringhurst", born 23 April, 1846; died 23 December, 

1846. 

348. William Joseph Bringhurst', born 5 August, 1848. 

349. Eliza Jane Bringhurst', born 14 August, 1851 ; married Amasa 

Lyman Raymond. 

350. Ann Dilworth Bringhurst', born 13 August, 1853; married John A. 

Groesbeck. 

351. Deseret Bringhurst', born 25 December, 1856; married Milan Lucian 

Crandall. 

352. Clara Olivia Bringhurst', born 11 July, 1858; died 2 January, 1898; 

married Edward James Hall. 

353. John Frank Bringhurst', born 13 December, 1861 ; married Mahala 

Harriet Crandall. 



166. JOHN BRINGHURST', youngest child of Joseph Bring- 
hurst* by his wife Elizabeth Evans, was born in Chester County, Penn- 
sylvania, 6 June, 1832; married (i) Eliza, daughter of Henry and 
Mary March, of Uwchlan township, Chester County. Pennsylvania. She 
died about two years after marriage, and he married (2), August, 1862, 
Rebecca Catherine Williamson; (3) Elizabeth Slack. 

Children, by first wife : 

354. Lewis Bringhurst'. 

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By second wife: 

355. Anna Hoops Bringhurst', born i March, 1863. 

356. Joseph Bringhurst', born 6 December, 1865; married, 29 June, i8go, 

Elizabeth Alice Parker. Issue: 357. Anna Hoops Bringhurst', 
born II August, 1891 ; died 9 February, 1892. 358. Samuel Par- 
ker Bringhurst', born 27 December, 1892; died 17 April, 1897. 
359. Raymond Kopp Bringhurst', born 7 September, 1897. 360. 
Leona Bringhurst', born 28 August, 1899. 

By third wife : 

361. Lydia Bringhurst', born i December, 1879. 

362. Ellen Bringhurst', born 16 December, 1886. 

363. Annie Bringhurst', born 25 July, 1892. 

167. DR. JAMES BRINGHURST\ son of James Bringhurst* by 
his wife Rebecca Ryan, was born at Philadelphia, 24 February, 1819; 
died at Jerseyville, Illinois, 23 June, 1870; married, in 1850, Mary 
Ryan, born at Upper Alton, Illinois, 22 March, 1822. He was a physi- 
cian, and practised medicine in Illinois. 

Children : 

364. James Bringhurst', born 28 April, 1851. 

365. John Bringhurst', born 7 May, 1853. 

366. Robert Porter Bringhurst', born 22 March. 1855; married Mary 

Frances Coolidge. 

367. Harry Bringhurst', born 6 September, 1857 ; died 20 December, 1896, 

at St. Louis, Missouri. 

170. HENRY RYAN BRINGHURST^ son of James Bringhurst* 
by his wife Rebecca Ryan, was born at Wilmington, Delaware, 20 Sep- 
tember, 1825, and died there. 25 October, 1899. He entered the drug- 
store of his cousin, Joseph Bringhurst, at the age of fourteen years, as 
an apprentice to the drug business, and there remained to the end of his 
life, succeeding to the full control of the business in 1859. He was 
closely identified with the founding of the Delaware Pharmaceutical 
Society, of which he was the first president, retaining the position many 
years. He served for several years as president and also as secretary of 
the Water Witch Fire Company, and was noted for his rare efificiency in 
raising the requisite funds for, and zeal in maintaining the standard of, 

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the volunteer fire department. He was connected with various hterary 
and other societies in former years, and in recent years was specially 
known for his long and faithful service as treasurer of the Historical 
Society of Delaware. " When a young man Mr. Bringhurst took an 
active part in the political affairs of his city and State. He was a close 
and trusted friend of Hon. John M. Clayton, with whom he often con- 
sulted ; and later, during the Civil War, he shared in the trials and secret 
councils involved in the momentous border problem of keeping Dela- 
ware in the Union and resisting the disruption of the government." 

Two days after Mr. Bringhurst's death a special meeting of the 
Delaware Historical Society was held to take action thereon. Appro- 
priate resolutions were passed, and a committee of five members was 
appointed to represent the Society at his funeral. Several members made 
brief addresses in support of the resolutions, and Henry C. Conrad, Esqt'e, 
one of the speakers, in the course of his remarks, said, " I shall always 
remember him as about the last representative we had left of the ' old 
school gentleman.' Of dignified bearing and correct deportment, his 
striking characteristics were the vigor and strength of mind and the 
individuality of his opinions. He was not afraid to take a stand and 
assert himself in its favor, although every one else should oppose him. I 
never knew a man who had a higher ideal of honesty and integrity." 

Mr. Bringhurst married, 20 August, 1868, Elizabeth Ashburnham 
Smith, born at Wilmington, 10 May, 1832; daughter of Captain Frank- 
lin Smith by his wife Elizabeth Ashburnham Brown. 

Children, born at Wilmington : 

368. Henry Ryan Bringhurst', born 2 July, 1869; graduated at Friends' 

School, in Wilmington, in the class of 1887, entered Haverford 
College in the fall of that year, and was graduated there in 1890, 
when he entered on the study of the law under Benjamin Neilds, 
Esqre, of Wilmington, and three years later was admitted to the 
bar, since which time he has engaged in the practice of the law in 
his native city. 

369. Elizabeth Ashburnham Bringhurst', born 5 March, 1871. 

192. JOHN RICHARDSON BRINGHURST^, son of Joseph 
Bringhurst" by his wife Anna Richardson, was born at Wilmington, 
Delaware, 8 January, 1845; married there (i), 17 February, 1870, 

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Elizabeth Tatnall, born 29 September, 1847; died 19 January, 1874; 
daughter of Joseph Tatnall by his wife Sarah Richardson; (2), 16 
June, 1 88 1, Annie S. Stokes, born at Louisville, Kentucky, 2 March, 
1861 ; died at Marshallton, Delaware, 23 April, 1882; daughter of 
James Stokes, of Louisville, by his wife Annie M. Stotsenberg; (3), at 
Darlington, Maryland, 20 April, 1887, Esther Harlan Wilson, daughter 
of William Worthington Wilson by his wife Annie E. Ferguson ; born 
at Darlington, 3 February, 1858. In 1874 Mr. Bringhurst acquired an 
interest in the rolling mills at Marshallton, Delaware, now the Mar- 
shallton Iron and Steel Company, of which he is the president, and in 
1887 he became the sole owner. He is secretary and treasurer of the 
Wilmington and Chester Turnpike Company. His two eldest children 
are by the first wife, the third by the second, and the youngest by the last 
wife. 

Children : 

370. Joseph Bringhurst', born 15 September, 1871 ; graduated in medicine 
at the University of Pennsylvania in 1898, and is now practising in 
his profession, at West Chester, Pennsylvania. He married (i), 
4 April, 1896, Helen Norwood, daughter of William Wilson by his 
wife Annie Ferguson. She died 21 May, 1898. He married (2), 14 
June, 1900. Elizabeth, daughter of George B. and Sarah Savery 
Meller, of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Issue: 371. Esther 
Wilson Bringhurst", born 2 February, 1897. 

372. Frederick Bringhurst', born 12 December, 1873. 

373. Margaret Bringhurst", born i April, 1882. 

374. John Richardson Bringhurst', JuNf, born 27 September, 1895. 

196. EDWARD BRINGHURST", JUN^, son of Edward Bring- 
hurst® by his wife Sarah Shipley, was born at Wilmington, Delaware, 
10 October, 1835; married, 22 April, 1862, Anna J., daughter of 
Thomas D. Webb by his wife Mary H. James; born 13 April, 1843. 
Mr. Bringhurst succeeded his father in the drug business, which he con- 
tinued until 1876, when he retired from active business. He has been a 
director of the National Bank of Delaware for over twenty years; is 
vice-president of the New Castle County Fire Insurance Company ; presi- 
dent of the Wilmington and Great Valley Turnpike Company; a director 
of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad Company and the Front and 

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Union Passenger Railway Company of Wilmington, and a member of the 
Delaware Historical Society. He resides at his seat " Rockwood," near 
Wilmington. It is one of the finest estates in Delaware, and was formerly 
the property of his kinsman, the late Joseph Shipley, noted financier and 
capitalist, of the firm of Brown, Shipley & Co., of London, England. 
The mansion-house (see accompanying views) is surrounded by nearly 
three hundred acres of land. 

Children, born at Wilmington : 

375. Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst', born 8 October, 1863 ; married, i 

June, 1886, John Gait Smith, of Kilwaughter Castle, Ireland, and 
of New York, son of Samuel Smith, of Kilwaughter Castle, by his 
wife Marianne Bryan. Mr. Smith died 25 April, 1899. 

376. Mary T. Bringhurst', born 24 June, 1865. 

T,Tj. Edith Ferris Bringhurst', born 30 March, 1874 ; married, 2 June, 
1897, Alexander Sellers, son of William Sellers. Issue : 378. 
Anne Bringhurst Sellers', born 9 March, 1898. 379. William 
Sellers', born 19 September, 1899. 380. Alexander Sellers', born 
22 February, 1901. 

381. Edward Bringhurst', 3'', born 4 July, 1884. 



198. WILLIAM BRINGHURST^ M.D.. eldest child and only son 
of Ziba Ferris Bringhurst® by his wife Amy Dixon,* was born 20 April. 
1833; died at Philadelphia, 27 January, 1898; married, at Philadel- 
phia, 16 January, 1869, Mrs. Amanda Melvina James, born at Philadel- 
phia, 6 December, 1829; died 21 February, 1888; widow of Thomas 
M. James, and daughter of George Veale, from Sunderland, Durham, 
England, by his wife Margaret Froert, of Delaware. He learned the 
drug business, but afterwards studied medicine, and in 1876 was gradu- 
ated M.D. from the Jefferson Medical College, and entered on the prac- 
tice of medicine at Philadelphia. Dr. Bringhurst was a member of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences, and devoted much attention to the study 
of the subjects embraced within the objects of that institution. He was 
well known for his humanitarian views, and highly esteemed by all who 
knew him. During the Civil War he was in the hospital service of the 
army, and was at one time a member of the Delaware Battery. 

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Child : 

382. William Joseph Bringhurst', born at Philadelphia, 17 February, 
1870 ; married, 7 February, 1892, Mary Frances Kelly, born at 
Newark, New Jersey, 17 July, 1870; daughter of James Kelly by 
his wife Katharine Finnegan. Issue: 383. Ethel Margaret 
Bringhurst*, born 27 February, 1893. 384. Frances Bringhurst", 
born 4 July, 1895. 385. William Bringhurst", born 25 April, 
1898. 

200. ANNA CLARKSON BRINGHURST^ daughter of John 
Gull Bringhurst® by his wife Susan Millis, was born at Philadelphia, i 
April, 1809; died there, 20 August, 1892; married William Savery 
Torr, born at Philadelphia, 13 October, 1805; died there, 19 July, 1895; 
son of John Torr by his wife Elizabeth Roth. 

Children, all born at Philadelphia : 

386. Anna Torr', born 25 March, 1832 ; married Washington Henry Bring- 

hurst. (See No. 218.) 

387. Julia Torr', died at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1876; married 

Neufville. 

388. William Henry Torr', died at KnoxviUe, Tennessee; was a lieutenant 

in the army. 

389. Ellen Torr', died at Philadelphia, in i860. 

390. Lucy Torr', twin to Ellen. 

391. Fanny Torr'. 

392. Harry Torr', born in 1843; died at Logansport, Indiana, 19 March, 

1896. 
393- Josephine Torr', born in 1845 ; died at Philadelphia, in i860. 

394. Elizabeth Torr'. 

395. Charles Clarence Torr'. 

201. GEORGE HUNTER BRINGHURST', son of John Gull 
Bringhurst* by his wife Susan Millis, was born at Philadelphia, i Novem- 
ber, 1810; died at Houston, Texas, 20 February, 1889; married, 14 
June, 1842, Nancy Trott, born at Rutherford County, Tennessee, 20 
October, 1821; died at Houston, Texas, 8 March, 1859; daughter of 
Henry Trott by his wife Elizabeth Patton. Mr. Bringhurst removed 
from Philadelphia to Texas about 1835, and served with the Texas 
troops in the war with Mexico in 1836. He held many positions of 
public trust at Houston, Texas, and was for twenty-three years Grand 
Secretary of the Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of Texas. 

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Children : 



397. John Henry Bringhurst', born 11 February, 1844; died 3 September, 

i8go; married Minerva Abercrombie. 

398. Anna Maria Bringhurst", born 18 December, 1845; married, about 

1869, Nathaniel Parker Turner. Issue: 399. Kate Turner". 
400. Maissie Turner". 

401. Sarah Bringhurst', born 14 April, 1847; died about 1875 or 1876; 

married, about 1870, Samuel Tinsley. 

402. Christiana Bringhurst", born 5 June, 1849; died 19 October, 1864. 

403. George Ruthvan Bringhurst', born 9 December, 1850; married 

Nettie Eloise Burke. 

404. Thomas Bringhurst', born 14 April, 1853; married, 16 December, 

1886, Emma Hannah Conklin. 



215. COLONEL THOMAS HALL BRINGHURST^ son of 
Robert Ralston Bringhurst*' by his wife Mary Wood, was born at Phila- 
delphia, 20 August, 1819; died at Logansport, Indiana, 23 May, 1899. 
He was reared under the parental roof, and received his education in the 
public schools of Philadelphia. Upon leaving school he was apprenticed 
to the trade of cabinet-making. In 1840 he went to Alabama, but the 
following year removed to Dayton, Ohio, where he remained until 1845, 
when he went to Logansport, Indiana, and there erected a saw-mill at 
the mouth of the Eel River, and engaged in the manufacture of lumber 
for the Eastern markets, making a specialty of walnut veneer. 

His business career, however, was interrupted by military service. 
In May, 1846, he enlisted in the First Regiment of Indiana Volun- 
teers for service in the Mexican War. The regiment went to Mexico, and 
while in the field he was promoted to second corporal. Returning from 
the war, he was mustered out of service at New Orleans, 15 June, 1847. 
Upon reaching home he resumed the operation of his saw-mill, which 
he successfully conducted until 1849, when, at the solicitation of the 
Whigs, who wished a party organ in that locality, he purchased the office 
and equipments of the Logansport Telegraph. With that plant Colonel 
Bringhurst established the Logansport Journal, which he conducted as 
editor and proprietor until 1870, making it one of the leading newspapers 
in that part of the State. He built up a large circulation, and the enter- 
prise proved a profitable one. He was twice elected mayor of Logansport, 
first in 1853, and next in 1855, serving four years. In 1861 his editorial 

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(Fro,., a pl,o,osrapl, of hi.u wi.en in co.nma,,,! of the 

40tli Indiana Volunteers) 

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duties were interrupted, wlien he again " donned the bhie as a defender 
of his country." He assisted in raising and enhsting the Forty-sixth 
Indiana Volunteers, of wliich he was commissioned major, 30 September, 
1861; heutenant-colonel, 25 May, 1862; and colonel, 6 August, 1862, 
with which rank he served until the close of the war. receiving his dis- 
charge at Louisville, Kentucky, 4 September, 1865. His regiment 
figured prominently in the Mississippi River campaign, being with 
Grant until Vicksburg was invested, and he later rendered active and 
meritorious service in Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and 
Louisiana, being with General Banks on the Louisiana and Texas expe- 
ditions, participating in the investment of Vicksburg and in the Red 
River campaign. His war service lasted nearly four years. His first 
experience in battle was at New Madrid. Missouri, and he participated 
in the engagements and battles of Ruddle's Point, Fort Pillow, Mem- 
phis, St. Charles, Arkansas, Devaul's Bluff, Yazoo Pass, Fort Pember- 
ton. Grand Gulf, Vicksburg, Champion Hill, Port Jackson, Teche, Car- 
rancro. Red River, and Yellow Bayou. He was particularly distinguished 
in the battles of Port Gibson and Champion Hill, and was mentioned in 
orders by his commanding officers for gallantry and good conduct. His 
coolness and quick decision saved Burbridge's brigade from defeat and 
probable capture in Louisiana in 1863. During his entire service he 
was never in hospital, never wounded, and never a prisoner of war. 
At his grave, on the occasion of his burial. Captain Swigart, an oflicer 
of his regiment in the Civil War, said, " He loved his country, he 
loved his flag, he loved his country's institutions ; he loved the men 
who stood for all these, and deeper than all else he loved the men 
whom he commanded. . . . We loved him because he took us as 
beardless boys, as awkward squads, and made us veteran soldiers. 
. . . The private soldiers received the same consideration from him 
the officers did, and we all loved him for it. . . . We loved him 
because he never asked us to go where he would not go. . . . He 
did not say, ' Go on, boys.' It was always, ' Come on, boys.' " 

Four years after his retirement from the army, and a year before he 
severed his connection with the Logansport Journal, he was appointed a 
special agent of the Post-Office Department, which position he resigned 
in 1876. About this time he made a trip to Philadelphia, and was 

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caught in a railroad wreck that came near costing him his life, and which 
disabled him for the rest of his life. 

The year following his retirement from the Post-Office Department 
he became a partner in the Logansport Manufacturing Company, and 
for some years he was vice-president of the company, and under his 
able management the enterprise became one of the leading industrial 
concerns in that section of the State. 

In mentioning his death, the Logansport Journal says, — 

" One of the most conspicuous figures in the history of Logansport 
was Thomas Hall Bringhurst, who for more than a half-century was a 
resident of this city, during which time he was a leading spirit in many 
of its business and public enterprises. Through two wars he loyally 
maintained the honor of his country, and at all times and in all places 
he was known for his fidelity of purpose, his lofty principles, and his 
strict adherence to the ethics which govern all human existence." 

No citizen of Logansport was ever more honored at his death than 
was Colonel Bringhurst. During the hours of his funeral business in 
that city was generally suspended, the public schools adjourned their 
sessions, and the city and county offices were closed. His body lay m 
state at his residence for three hours, and a vast concourse of people 
passed in and out to view the remains, while about the coffin stood six 
of the Logan Greys in uniform, silently guarding the still form. The 
cortege which proceeded from his residence to the cemetery was thus 
formed : 

Squad of police. 

Martial band. 

Mayor, city councils, and officials. 

Company M. 

G. A. R. and old soldiers. 

Rev. W. E. Beiderwolf and other clergymen of the city, in carriages. 

Honorary pall-bearers. 

Veterans of the Mexican War. 

Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteers. 

Logan Greys. 

Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 

Funeral car. 

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Fire department. 

Citizens in carriages. 

Colonel Bringhurst was a delegate to the first National Convention 
of the Republican party, and participated in the nomination of General 
Fremont for the Presidency. He was for some years a member of the 
Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, and the Grand Army of the Republic. He married ( i ) , by 
Rev. David E. Thomas, at Piqua, Ohio, lo May, 1848, Mary J. Stewart, 
born in 1823; died at Logansport, 28 July, 1855; (2), 11 March, 1857, 
Elizabeth Ross, born 5 March, 1834, daughter of Ezekiel Ross by his 
wife Martha Kay. 

Children, born at Logansport : 

405. Robert Ralston Bringhurst', born 2 February, 1849; married Mary 

Caroline Yerger. 

406. Elizabeth E. Bringhurst', born 30 July, 1850; married, 28 May, 1872, 

Dr. Henry C. Gemmill. Issue: 407. Thomas Hugh Gem mill', 
born 6 May, 1873; died 13 September, 1873. 408. Henry C. Gem- 
mill', JunR, born 17 May 1874. 409. Arthur Stewart Ge.mmill". 
born 18 August, 1876. 410. Robert Bringhurst Gemmill', born 
16 May, 1879. 411. Thomas Bringhurst Gemmill', born 14 Feb- 
ruary, 1881. 412. Julia Gemmill', born 18 January, 1885. 

413. Washington Henry Bringhurst', born 6 June, 1852; died Septem- 

ber, 1852. 

414. Anna Bringhurst", born 12 September, 1853 ; married, 10 October, 

1878, Howard F. Lauderdale, and had issue: 415. Howard Lau- 
derdale". 

Child by second wife: 

416. Mary Bringhurst', born i December, 1859; married, 27 January, 1880. 
Lon A. Bond, of Chicago. Issue: 417. Thomas Charles Bond', 
born 8 January, 1881. 418. Elizabeth Ross Bond', born 13 Janu- 
ary, 1888. 

218. WASHINGTON HENRY BRINGHURST^ son of Robert 
Ralston Bringhurst* by his wife Mary Wood, was born at Philadelphia, 
9 October, 1824; married at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Philadel- 
phia, 1 1 January, i860, Anna Torr, born at Philadelphia, 25 March, 
1832; daughter of William S. Torr by his wife Anna Clarkson Bring- 
hurst (200). Mr. Bringhurst graduated at the Central High School, 

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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



Philadelphia, and was among- the adventurers who went to California 
in 1849. Returning from there, he shortly afterwards settled at Logans- 
port, Indiana, where he went into the drug business, in which he is still 
engaged. He has for some years been a member of the Educational 
Board of Logansport. He has long been interested in the genealogy of 
the Bringhurst family, and his collection of genealogical material has 
aided in the preparation of the present work. 

Children, born at Logansport, Indiana: 

4ig. Henry Washington Bringhurst', born 13 June, 1861 ; married, 10 
May, 1890, Delia Zipf, of Cliicago. Issue: 420. Horace Morton 
Bringhurst Zipf', born at Seattle, Washington, 30 January, 1891. 

421. Charles Alfred Bringhurst', born 20 August, 1862; died 2 Novem- 

ber, 1865. 

422. Alfred Theodore Bringhurst', born 22 December, 1867. 

423. Josephine Bringhurst', born 30 October, 1870. 

424. William Lawrence Bringhurst', born 30 January, 1872; died 11 

April, 1872. 

222. REV. GEORGE BRINGHURST", son of Robert Ralston 
Bringhurst" by his wife Mary Wood, was born at Philadelphia, 16 Octo- 
ber, 1827. He was graduated in the classical course of the Central High 
School, Philadelphia; continued his classical studies under a private 
tutor, and then studied theology under the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, 
Bishop of Pennsylvania, and the Rev. Jaines Vaughan, D.D. ; was^ 
ordained to the diaconate of the Episcopal Church by Bishop Potter in 
1855, and advanced to priest's orders the following year by Bishop Lee, 
of Delaware. He became a pioneer of the mission work in the " slums" 
of Philadelphia, its head-quarters being the Church of the Crucifixion. 
For some years he had fifty convicts in the Eastern Penitentiary under 
his spiritual care, and during the Civil War he was the first delegate of 
the United States Christian Commission, and during his service with the 
Lhiion army in that capacity he ministered to fifty thousand sick and 
wounded soldiers. In 1865 he organized the Midnight Mission of Phila- 
delphia. He was Rector of All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church and 
the Church of the Messiah, the edifice of the latter having been con- 
structed under his rectorship, and for the past quarter of a century he 
has been the Rector of the Church of the House of Prayer, at Branch- 

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and his sons 

KKV. GEORGE URINGHOKST Wir.I.lAM WIMTE BR1N(;HI!RS1 

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town, Philadelphia, where the silver jubilee of such rectorship was held 
October, 1900. 

He married, 2 May, 1850, Emma Seal, born at Philadelphia, 25 
June, 183 1 ; daughter of Joseph H. Seal by his wife Esther L. Mort. 

Child, born at Philadelphia : 

425. Emma Louisa Bringhurst', born 30 January, 1851 ; married, 20 Octo- 
ber, 1870, Julius A. Kaiser, born 25 July, 1846; son of Henry and 
Christine Kaiser. Child : 426. George Bringhurst Kaiser', born 
14 April, 1873. 

224. ROBERT MORRIS BRINGHURST^ son of Robert Ralston 
Bringhurst^ by his wife Mary Wood, was born at Philadelphia, 9 Octo- 
ber, 1 831; died 28 January, 1876; married, 20 October, 1857, Alice 
Rooke. 

Children : 

427. Mary Bringhurst", born 4 October, 1859; married, 13 December, 1883, 

Louis A. Flanagan. 

428. Florence Bringhurst', born 22 December, 1863; died 4 August, 1880. 

225. WILLIAM WHITE BRINGHURST^ son of Robert Ral- 
ston Bringhurst" by his wife Mary Wood, was born at Philadelphia, 28 
January, 1834; died 6 August, 1868; married, 4 April, 1863, Jennie R. 
Kendrick, born 2 November, 1836; daughter of George W. Kendrick 
by his wife Maria McDonald. 

Child: 

429. Robert Ralston Bringhurst', born 23 December, 1866; married, 11 

November, 1891, Fanny Hodgson, born 9 December, 1871 ; daughter 
of Frederick A. Hodgson by his wife Fannie Cooper. Issue: 430. 
George Kendrick Bringhurst", born 25 May, 1893. 431. Dorothy 
Hodgson Bringhurst', born 23 February, 1895. 432. Frances 
Bringhurst', torn 2 August, 1897. 

241. GEORGE WASHINGTON BRINGHURST^ son of Mat- 
thias Keen Bringhurst" by his wife Rebecca Sharp, was born at Phila- 
delphia, 27 April, 1831; resides at Litchfield, Illinois; married (i) 
Cornelia Anna Hanley; (2), 28 September, 1880, Rebecca Brown, 
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born at Astoria, Illinois, 5 January, 185 1; daughter of James Brown 
by his wife Rachel Pierce. In 1861 Mr. Bringhurst responded to the 
call for seventy-five thousand volunteers, and served in the Union army 
three years. For two years he was gun-sergeant in Company K, Second 
Illinois Light Artillery, and for one year served in the Commissary 
Department of the Army of the Mississippi. He was first a Whig, then 
a Know-Nothing, and afterwards a Republican, voting for Abraham 
Lincoln twice. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows. 

Children by first wife : 

433. Minnie Bringhurst', born in 1867; resides at St. Louis, Missouri; 

married. 

434. Edgar Allen Bringhurst', born at Alton, Illinois, 4 July, 1868 ; resides 

at St. Louis, Missouri; married, 31 August, 1893, Minnie Waugh 
Andrew, born at Buffalo, Missouri, 17 July, 1873 ; daughter of 
John Scott Andrew by his wife Mary Agnes Gibson. Issue : 435. 
Vera Grace Bringhurst", born 27 August, 1896. 436. Evan Glen 
Bringhurst", born 10 August, 1898. 
437. Ernest W. Bringhurst', born at Trenton, Illinois, 17 December, 1873 ; 
resides at St. Louis, Missouri ; married, 1 1 November, 1894, 
Othelia G. Smith, born at St. Louis, Missouri, 24 June, 1876; 
daughter of Valentine Smith by his wife Mollie Kile. Issue: 438. 
Viola G. Bringhurst", born 29 April, 1896. 

Children by second wife: 

439. Mabel Wh-ev Bringhurst', born 28 October, 1881. 

440. Harry Earl Bringhurst', born 2 April, 1884. 

441. George Robert Bringhurst', born 3 September, 1886. 

303. MAJOR ROBERT WILTON BRINGHURST^ son of 
Augustus L. Bringhurst" by his wife Maria Louise Waters, was born 
at Alexandria, Louisiana, 13 December, 1840. He was educated at 
schools in Alexandria, Virginia, Schenectady, New York, and at Union 
College, in the latter State, where he was graduated a civil engineer in 
1 86 1. Upon returning home he was appointed assistant engineer of a 
railroad in Louisiana, which position he resigned to enlist in the Con- 
federate army, where he served four years, first as assistant military 
engineer in the Army of the Middle States, then as engineer in the Trans- 

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Mississippi Department, and later as chief engineer in the Department 
of Arkansas. He was at one time in charge of the pioneer corps with 
General Sterling Price in Missouri, and closed his military career in 
Texas. After the war he was commissioned civil engineer and surveyor 
of Alexandria Parish, Louisiana, in which position he served over thirty 
years. He is now engaged as a planter, and is at the head of the Bring- 
hurst Land and Real Estate Agency at Alexandria. He married, 25 
November, 1865, Judith Taliaferro Leckie, born at Alexandria, Louisi- 
ana, 25 November, 1843; graduate of the New Orleans High School; 
daughter of William R. Leckie by his wife Elvira Sexton. 

Children, born at Alexandria : 

442. Maria Louise Bringhurst", born 19 October, 1866; died 11 Septem- 

ber, 1896; married, 25 February, 1895, W. E. Allen. 

443. Albert Henry Bringhurst', born 21 June, 1868; died at Franklin, 

Louisiana, 19 June, 1900: married, 12 June, 1895, Florence Kramer, 
born 5 December, 1873 ; daughter of Joseph Kramer by his wife 
Mary Miller. Issue: 444. Reta Gladys Bringhurst", born 7 
March, 1897. 445. Lydia Hazel Bringhurst', born 9 November, 
1900. 

446. George Augustus Bringhurst", born 16 August, 1870 ; died 5 Octo- 

ber, 1888. 

447. Katherine Sexton Bringhurst', born 10 August, 1873. 

448. Elvira May Bringhurst', born 26 May, 1875. 

449. Robert Wilton Bringhurst', Junt, born 28 September, 1877; real 

estate agent, and surveyor of Rapides Parish, Louisiana. 

450. Newton Taliaferro Bringhurst', born 6 September, 1879 ; a college 

student (1901) at Ashland, Virginia. 

451. Francis LaDoux Bringhurst', born 28 August, 1881 ; a student 

(1901) at Purdue University, Indiana. 

452. Mary Waters Bringhurst', born 22 July, 1883. 

304. \\ILLL\M STUART BRINGHURST", Ph.D., son of 
Augustus L. Bringhurst" by his wife Maria Louise Waters, was born 
at Alexandria, Louisiana, 27 August, 1844; married Nettie Powers 
Houston, youngest daughter of Major-General Sam Houston, the first 
President of the republic of Texas, and afterwards governor and United 
States Senator of Texas. Mr. Bringhurst was educated in Louisiana 
and Germany, and received the degree of Ph.D. from the Univer- 
sity of Tubingen, Germany. He has been a teacher for many years. 

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He was for ten years professor of English in the Agricultural and 
Mechanical College of Texas, and is now a teacher of Greek and Latin 
in the High School at San Antonio, in that State. 

Children : 

453. Samuel Houston Bringhurst', born 3 March, 1878; died 11 October, 

1895. 

454. Charles Raguet Bringhurst', born 24 May, 1880; died 3 July, 1882. 

455. William Stuart Bringhurst', born 23 August, 1883 ; died 10 Octo- 

ber, 1884. 

456. Nettie Houston Bringhurst'. born 6 November, 1887. 

457. Anna Katherine Bringhurst', born 28 January, 1890; died 6 August, 

189s. 

305. CHARLES ERNEST BRINGHURST^ son of Augustus L. 
Bringhurst® by his wife Maria Louise Waters, was born at Alexandria, 
Louisiana, 9 November, 1847, where he now resides. He married Sallie 
Sellers Waters, born 15 February, 1857; died 20 October, 1891 ; daugh- 
ter of William Waters, Junf. 

Children : 

458. Julius Rene Bringhurst', born 17 April, 1878; died 25 October, 1879. 

459. Ernest Randolph Bringhurst', born 11 April, 1881 ; died 22 April, 

1881. 

460. Charles Francis Bringhurst', born 25 April, 1882. 

461. George Hugh Bringhurst', born 21 January, 1885. 

462. Jennie Bringhurst', born 20 May, 1886; died 25 March, 1889. 

463. Mary Thornton Bringhurst*, born 9 July, 1888. 

314. EDWARD SLATER BRINGHURST^ second son of Wil- 
liam Robert Bringhurst'', Esq^e, by his wife Julia Hulings, was born at 
Clarksville, Tennessee, 10 June, 1842. He followed his father in the 
business of carriage-building, and is now the manager of the Bringhurst 
Buggy Company, at Clarksville. He has held the office of marshal of 
that city. He married, 29 April, 1869, Mattie Eliza Champion, born at 
Eddyville, Kentucky, 18 October, 1845; '^^^'^ ^t Winchester, Virginia, 
1 1 March, 1885 ; daughter of Dr. Alford H. Champion by his wife Mary 
Scott. 

Child : 

464. Mary Bringhurst', born 4 February, 1871. 

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315. WILLIAM RUFUS BRINGHURST^ son of William Robert 
Bringhurst^ by his wife Julia Huliiigs, was born at Clarksville, Tennes- 
see, 4 November, 1844; married, 29 April, 1869, Sarah Scott, born at 
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, i September, 1855 ; daughter of William Henry 
Scott by his wife Mary Jane Greenfield. Mr. Bringhurst resides at 
Clarksville, where he has held the offices of Coal Oil Inspector and 
Election Commissioner. 



Children : 



465. Mary Lulu BRINGHURST^ born 16 November, 1S70; is State Librarian 

of Tennessee. Sbe married, 15 October, 1S88, W. P. Epperson, 
who died 10 December, 1900. 

466. K.\TE HuLiNGS Bringhurst', born 3 June, 1872; married, 18 April, 

189J, Walter Clarke. 

467. Theodore Plummer Bringhurst', born 7 May, 1874. 

468. Edward H. Bringhurst", born 12 February, 1877. 

469. Clara Wisdom Bringhurst', born 20 June, 1878. 

470. Harry Fauche Bringhurst', born 18 November, 1881. 

471. Anna Bell Bringhurst', born 6 August, 1883. 

472. Sallie Scott Bringhurst', born 19 May, 1885. 

473. William Rufus Bringhurst", born 29 October, 1887. 

474. Mary Greenfield Bringhurst', born 23 February, 1890. 




THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 






338. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BRINGHURST*, son 
of Samuel Bringhurst^ by his wife Eleanor Beitler, was 
born at Lionville, Uwchlan township, Chester County, 
Pennsylvania, 26 January, 1839; married (i) Selinda 
Dalby Palmer; (2) Susan A. Steele; (3) Mary J. 
Stapeley. Mr. Bringhurst removed with his parents to 
Utah in 1847, and since 1866 has resided at Toquersville, in that State, 
where he has held the offices of Assessor and Collector of Taxes, High 
Sheriff, and County Judge, and is now a Bishop in the Church of Latter- 
Day Saints. 

Children by first wife : 

475. William Augustus Bringhurst". 

476. Howard Bringhurst". 

477. Eliza Bethula Bringhurst". 

478. Mary Eleanor Bringhurst". 

479. Mifflin Morris Bringhurst". 

480. Lorenzo Bringhurst". 

481. George Robert Bringhurst". 

482. Franklin Palmer Bringhurst'. 

483. Daniel Bringhurst". 

484. Henry Bringhurst". 

Children by second wife : 

485. John Samuel Bringhurst". 

486. Anna Augusta Bringhurst". 

487. Joseph Alma Bringhurst". 

488. Mary Elizabeth Bringhurst". 

489. Eleanor Cambel Bringhurst". 

490. Mohonari Louis Bringhurst". 

491. Jesse Wilford Bringhurst". 

492. Laur Selinda Bringhurst". 



Children by third wife : 

493. Marias William Bringhurst". 

494. Vida Bringhurst". 

495. Samuel Bringhurst". 

496. Vera Bringhurst". 

497. Leo Bringhurst". 

498. Charles Bringhurst". 

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342. SAMUEL BRINGHURST«, son of Samuel Bringhurst^ by 
his wife Eleanor Beitler, was bom at Salt Lake City, Utah, 7 April, 1850; 
married, 6 December, 1888, Sarah Orr, born at Grantsville, Utah, 4 
January, 1865; daughter of Robert Orr by his wife Sarah Wickel. Mr. 
Bringhurst resides at Taylorsville, Utah. 

Children : 

500. Ada Eleanor Bringhurst', born 27 March, 1890. 

501. Florence Bringhurst', born 29 January, 1892. 

502. Bessie Bringhurst', born 11 February, 1894. 

503. Marion Bringhurst', born 11 August, 1896. 

504. Edna Bringhurst', born 3 November, 1898. 

344. JOHN BEITLER BRINGHURST^ son of Samuel Bring- 
hurst^ by his wife Eleanor Beitler, was born at Salt Lake City, Utah, 13 
June, 1854; married, 3 January, 1876, Emma Frances Tripp, born at 
Salt Lake City, Utah, 15 October, 1858; daughter of Enoch Bartlett 
Tripp by his wife Jessie Eddins. Mr. Bringhurst resides at Taylorsville, 
Utah. 

Children : 

505. Jessie Bringhurst', born 22 July, 1877; married, 15 October, 1896, 

Webster. 

506. Emma Eleanor Bringhurst', born 14 February, 1879. 

507. Mary Bringhurst', born 19 February, 1881. 

508. John Tripp Bringhurst', born 11 August, 1883. 

509. William Albert Bringhurst', born 13 January, 1886. 

510. Lucy Bringhurst', born 6 January, 1888. 

511. Samuel Enoch Bringhurst', born 27 January, 1890. 

512. Joseph Willard Bringhurst', born 31 August, 1892. 

513. Louis Howard Bringhurst", born 13 April, 1895. 

514. Arthur Bryant Bringhurst', born 7 December, 1897. 

515. Heber Grant Bringhurst', born 20 August, 1900. 

349. ELIZA JANE BRINGHURST*, daughter of William Bring- 
hurst^ by his wife Ann Dilworth, was born near Salt Lake City, Utah, 
14 August, 1851; married, 29 May, 1871, Amasa Lyman Haymond, 
born at Des Moines, Iowa, 8 December, 1848; son of Edward Owen 
Haymond by his wife Margaret Ann Sissel. 

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Children : 



516. Am ASA L. Havmond", Junt, born 8 April, 1872. 

517. Marion Bringhurst Raymond", born 14 March, 1S74. 

518. Frank Owen Haymond', born 10 August, 1876. 

519. Louise Bringhurst Raymond', born 24 September, 1878. 

520. William Bringhurst Raymond', born 10 December, 1881. 

521. George Dilworth Raymond', born 28 August, 1884. 

522. John C. Raymond', born 4 November, 1887. 

523. Ann Eliza Raymond', born 22 January, 1890. 

524. Walter Creed Raymond', born 2 December, 1893. 

525. Elma Florence Raymond', born 2 December, 1893. 



350. ANN DILWORTH BRINGHURST^, daughter of Wilham 
Bringhurst' by his wife Ann Dilworth, was born near Salt Lake City, 13 
August, 1853; married, z-j February, 1871, John A. Groesbeck, who 
resides at Salt Lake City; born at Springfield, Illinois, 14 July, 1849; 
son of Nicholas Groesbeck by his wife Elizabeth Thotnpson. 

Children : 

526. John A. Groesbeck', JuNf, born 22 March, 1872; married, 29 Novem- 

ber, 1892, Jessie Clawson. 

527. Frank Groesbeck', born i December, 1873; married, 12 December, 

1894, Nell Young. 

528. Clara Groesbeck', born i November, 1875 ; died 20 June, 1890. 

529. Ann Louise Groesbeck', born 14 June, 1878 ; married, 20 October, 1897, 

Earl Vivian McCune. 

530. Florence Groesbeck', born 7 August, 1880. 

531. Walter Scott Groesbeck', born 6 September, 1882. 

532. Emma Elizabeth Groesbeck', born 10 October, 1884. 

533. Mark Bringhurst Groesbeck', born 27 October, 1887. 

534. Milton Dilworth Groesbeck', born 18 February, 1895. 

535. Grant Allen Groesbeck', born 31 May, 1897. 



351. DESERET BRINGHURST*, daughter of William Bring- 
hurst'' by his wife Ann Dilworth, was bom in California, 25 December, 
1856; married, 20 November, 1879, Milan Lucian Crandall, born at 
Springville, Utah, 30 October, 1856; son of Martin Pardon Crandall 

by his wife Mahala Fuller. 

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EIGHTH GENERATION 



Children : 



536. Milan Lucian Crandall", Junt, born 9 August, 1880. 

537. William Bringhurst Cr.\ndall°, born 30 May, 1883. 

538. Ann Dilworth Crandall", born 30 September, 1888. 

539. Ivy Lucile Crandall', born 23 December, 1891. 



352. CLARA OLIVIA BRINGHURST«, daughter of William 
Bringhurst" by his wife Ann Dilworth, was born at Salt Lake City, 1 1 
July, 1858; died 2 January, 1898; married, 6 May, 1878, Edward 
James Hall, now a resident of Springville, Illinois. 

Children : 

540. Elinor Bringhurst Hall', born 28 October, 1879. 

541. Wilton D. Hall", born 21 August, 1881. 

542. Mabel Hall', born 9 August, 1886. 

543. Ferol Hall', born 6 January, 1890; died i December, 1891. 

353. JOHN FRANK BRINGHURST*, son of William Bring- 
hurst' by his wife Ann Dilworth, was born at Springville, Utah, 13 
December, 1861, and resides there; married, 22 October, 1885, Mahala 
Harriet Crandall, born 12 December, 1866, daughter of Martin Pardon 
Crandall, of Springville, by his wife Harriet Taylor. 

Children : 

544. John Frank Bringhurst', Jun"", born 22 August, 1886. 

545. William Bringhurst', born 14 March, 1888. 

546. Harriet Bringhurst', born 6 April, 1890. 

547. Norma Bringhurst', born 29 April, 1892. 

548. Mark Dilworth Bringhurst*, born 26 September, 1894. 

549. Joseph Crandall Bringhurst', born 24 February, 1897. 

550. Gideon Martin Bringhurst', born 6 December, 1899. 

366. ROBERT PORTER BRINGHURST*, the sculptor, son of 
Dr. James Bringhurst' by his wife Mary Ryan, was born at Alton, Illi- 
nois, 22 March, 1855; married, 8 November, 1877, Mary Frances 
Coolidge, born at Litchfield. Illinois, 31 May, 1858; daughter of Henry 
A. Coolidge by his wife Amanda Almine Horton. Mr. Bringhurst 
received his early education in the schools of Alton and Jerseyville, 

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Illinois. During his boyhood he displayed talents for art, but never took 
an active interest in sculpturing until after his marriage, when he removed 
to St. Louis, Missouri, where he now resides, and where, in 1880, he 
entered the St. Louis School of Fine Arts as a pupil, and studied there 
for three years, when he went to Paris and entered the ficole des Beaux 
Arts. He remained in Paris a year, then returned to St. Louis, but 
a few months later left again with his family for the French capital. 
This time he remained three years, during which he exhibited at the salon 
two years. His works, " The Young Mother" and " The Awakening 
of Spring," were awarded honorable mention. Mr. Bringhurst returned 
to St. Louis to accept a position as instructor in sculpturing in the School 
of Fine Arts, which position he now holds. 

At the World's Fair in Chicago Mr. Bringhurst was awarded a first- 
class medal for his work. There were only twelve medals given to 
American sculptors. At the Tennessee Centennial he was awarded the 
first money prize of two hundred dollars. He has recently completed a 
beautiful statue, " The Kiss of Immortality," designed for a tomb. 

Children : 

551. Robert Porter Bringhurst", born i September, 1878; died 5 January, 

1879. 

552. Walter Scott Bringhurst', born 20 February, 1881. 

553. Camille Coolidge Bringhurst", born 7 December, 1885. 

554. GuiLDA Cecelia Bringhurst", born i November, 1888. 

397. JOHN HENRY BRINGHURST*, son of George Hunter 
Bringhurst' by his wife Nancy Trott, was born at Houston, Texas, 1 1 
February, 1844; died there, 3 September, 1890; married, 16 September, 
1873, Minerva Abercrombie, born at Waverley, Texas, 23 May, 1854; 
daughter of John Conner Abercrombie by his wife Jane Minerva Sims. 
Mr. Bringhurst resides at Houston, Texas. 

Children : 

555. Jack Conner Bringhurst", born 14 September, 1874; died 22 July, 

1875- 

556. George Hunter Bringhurst", born 14 November, 1877; died 28 August, 

1878. 

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557. Jane Minerva Bringhurst", born 21 January, 1879; died 21 January, 

1881. 

558. Kate Bringhurst", born 23 September, 1880. 

559. Carrie Bringhurst", born 14 October, 1882; died 21 June, 1S83. 

560. Minnie Bringhurst', born 22 August, 1883 ; died 4 December, 1884. 

561. John Henry Bringhurst", Juxr, born 11 October, 1885. 

562. James Marion Bringhurst", born 24 July, 1886; died 15 Marcb, 1887. 

563. Charles Bringhurst", born 11 March. 1888; died 19 March, 1888. 

564. George Hunter Bringhurst", born 28 December, 1889; died 19 June, 

1891. 

403. GEORGE RUTHVAN BRINGHURST*. son of George 
Hunter Bringhurst" by his wife Nancy Trott, was born at Houston, 
Texas, 9 December, 1850; married, 16 October. 1879, Nettie Eloise 
Burke, born at Houston, Texas, i August, 1854; daughter of Andrew 
Jackson Burke by his wife Eloise Lusk. Mr. Bringhurst was Secretary 
and Treasurer of Houston from 1886 until 1890, and was chief dei)uty 
sherifif of Harris County, Texas. He resides at Houston. 

Children : 

565. Henry Brashear Bringhurst", born 29 July, 1880. 

566. George Ruthvan Bringhurst", Jun^, born 2 September, 1881. 

567. Fannie Eloise Bringhurst", born 26 July, 1887. 

568. Edmund Leslie Bringhurst". born i July, 1895. 

405. CAPTAIN ROBERT RALSTON BRINGHURST*, eldest 
child of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst", was born at Logansport, 
Indiana, 2 February, 1849, and removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
in 1868, where he succeeded his uncle in the undertaking business, at 38 
North Eleventh Street, in which he is still engaged. He was for many 
years connected with the National Guard of Pennsylvania, being com- 
missioned, 9 September, 1878, first lieutenant of Company A, State Fen- 
cibles Battalion, to rank as such from 8 July, same year; promoted, 25 
March, 1879, to captain of Company C, which commission he resigned 4 
March, 1883. The next year he was elected first lieutenant of Company 
K, First Regiment Infantry, and commissioned, 26 November, to rank 
from 27 October, 1884; promoted captain, 15 September, 1886, to rank 
from 6 July, 1886. resigning the same, 30 April, 18S8. Captain Bring- 
hurst was elected a member of the Ninth Sectional School Board of 

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Philadelphia, in June, 1885, and was annually re-elected until 1890, 
when he was unanimously elected president of the board, and re-elected 
in 1 89 1, during which year he was elected a member of Select Council 
from the Ninth Ward, in which position he is still serving, having been 
three times re-elected for terms of three years. He is chairman of the 
Water Committee, as well as a leading member of the Finance Com- 
mittee, and in his councilmanic office he has warmly supported all wise 
and wholesome legislation. He took an active interest in furthering the 
completion of the Boys' High School, and was especially active in favor- 
ing the teachers', firemen's, and police annuity funds measures. He was 
a member of the Councils' Committee appointed to look after the families 
of Philadelphia soldiers in the war between Spain and the United States, 
and chairman of the sub-committee of Councils that went South to care 
for and bring home the sick soldiers. 

As a business man Captain Bringhurst has met with substantial suc- 
cess, and his patrons are among the leading families of Philadelphia. 
He was president of the National Funeral Association for four years, of 
the State Association for two years, and of the local association for one 
year. 

Captain Bringhurst has long been interested in the history and gene- 
alogy of the Bringhurst family, and it is due to such interest that the 
present volume is published. He is a member of the Historical Society 
of Pennsylvania, the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsyl- 
vania Society of Sons of the Revolution. 

He married, 17 April, 1873, Mary Caroline Yerger, born at Philadel- 
phia, 15 August, 1855; daughter of John R. Yerger by his wife Mary, 
daughter of Henry Nagle. 

Children, born at Philadelphia : 

569. Mary Louisa Bringhurst', born and died in 1874. 

570. Helen Bringhurst', born 3 September, 1875. 

571. Bessie Ross Bringhurst', born 26 October, 1877. 

572. Anna Clarkson Bringhurst', born 31 December, 1882. 



MAKV J. STEWART, FIRST WIFE OF COLUNEl 
THOMAS HA 1,1. BRINGHURST 

FaKC 79 




V _.,... 




KI.1ZABETH ROSS, SECOND WIFE OF COLONF.L 
IliOMAS HAI.l. BRINOHURSI 

Page 79 



THE 

TESTIMONY 

Of that Dear and Faithful Man, 

fOH3\C MArE%3\Co 

Who had Lived Six Years and Faithful- 
ly ferved the Lord in his Vocation in the 
Family oi C. T. now Dwelling at 
Edmonton in Middlefex, 

ALSO, 
Other Blcded Teftimonies concerning 
Him, and the T r u t h ic felf j 

With fomething concerning his Bleffed 

Condition in the limexjf his bicknefs, and 

when He was near his Departure. 

WITH 
Several Tefiimonies of 5enfible Children 
who had been under His Tuition. 

fubljjijed that God may have his Glory inTre-^ 
fervtng Im Faithful ones Faithful to the end. A. P. 



LONDON, 

Vrinied, and are to be Sold by JEen. Clark 

»n Ceorge-Tard in Lumbard-Jireet. i68o, 



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^H^ EMMORANDOMS of things Worthy Notice and the 
W II ^^ time when they Happened within the memory of John 
^^ ^[^/ Bringhurst Jr. Only went back to my Grandfathers and 
mothers on Both sides. 

My Grand father Thomas Bringhurst was a Chirurgeon of London, 
married Ehzabeth Hughes tlie 27th 6mo. 1647. 

My Father was Born i^t 9mo 1655, was put prentice to Andrew 
Toaler Stationer in London and was made free of said City 3d 7mo 
1681 Sett up his Trade & kept the sign of the Bible in Grascious Street. 

My Mothers Father Hilerias Prache was a Priest in orders in Gar- 
mina & my Mothers first Husband John Matern was a School Master 
there, was both convinced of the Truth Profest by the people called 
Quakers in the Year 1671, not having any to joyn with there, writ to 
frds in Holland & London and Received sattisfactory answers to com 
over accordingly my Grandmother & Mother being also convinced they 
all left Germoney went to Holland & from thence to London where John 
Matern Kept School at Christopher Taylors at Edmonton where he died 
the 5th 7mo i68o.t 

My Father was married to Rosina Matern the 2, ^ ; 1682. Grand- 
Father Prache Died and Grandmother Barbarah Prache with her 
daughter Marion Killey % and my Mothers Daughter Abigail Matern § 

* Copied from the original in possession of Mr. John Richardson Bringhurst, of Wilmington, Delaware. 

t Immediately after his decease his friends issued a booklet, the title-page of which has been reproduced, 
and is herewith inserted. A copy of the work is in the possession of Mr. Edward Bringhurst. Jun'. of Wil- 
mington, Delaware. It is chiefly made up of short "testimonies" written by pupils under his instruction at 
Christopher Taylor's boarding-school. Among the scholars who thus bore testimony was Edward Pening- 
ton. half-brother by marriage of William Penn. who came to Pennsylvania with Penn in i6sk8, and in 1700 
became Surve>or-General of the Province and the founder of the Penington family there. Young Pening- 
ton was a son of Isaac Penington, an eminent Quaker minister and writer, and grandson of Sir Isaac 
Penington, Lord Mayor of London in 1643. 

X As " widow" Mariana von Beylaert, she married, at Philadelphia, 9 November, 1697, William Kelley, of 
Darby, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 

g Abigail Matern married, as second wife, at Friends' Meeting, Philadelphia, 9 May, 1698, John Bettle, 
and had children : William, Hannah, and Samuel, and possibly others. She died in July, 1713, and he in 
April, 1715. 

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afterwards Bittle was concerned to go to Pensilvania and all setled in 
Philadela, Who often wrote to my Father and Mother to com over to 
them but my Father could not be prevaild with to Cross the ocean to a 
New Country in his old age. 

I was born the 25; i2mo 1695 and my Father Died . . . 

My Father being Dead my Mother concluded to transport herself 
& family of small children into Pensilvania where her Mother, Sister 
& Daughter was and accordingly Tuck Passage at London in the Brigt 
Messenger Joshua Guy Master for her self and four children being 
Elizabeth, John, Barbarah & George and landed at Philadel. My sister 
Elizabeth was put Prentice to Mary Cook * Shop keeper and I was put 
prentice to George Gust f of Phila, Cooper the 12th gmo 1701. My 
Brother George was prentice Arnel Klinkin of Germantown wever My 
Sister Barbarah to John Billender & wife but did not serve out her time 
there. 

After I had served about five years My Master Broke up Hous and 
went to Barbados and I was assigned over to Edward Mayes of Bristol 
Boulter & Shopkeeper the 24, 8mo. 1707 and worked with Samuell 
Bustil for him. My Master died the 2d mo 1709. I had then about 
Ten Months to serve which I did by advice of My Mother with his 
widow and was badly requited being put off verry Bare with Clothes 
& those not good in kind. After I had served out my time & was free 
I went to work journey work with Charles Lavalley about 3 or 4 miles 
back of Bristol where I continued til I came to Philad gmo 171 1, then 
boarded with my sister Eliz. who had a Room in the House with my 
Mother and Grandmother and I work'd journey work with Nath" 
Allen. 

My Mother died the . . . Grandmother Prache died 9th imo 
1711/12. My Sister Elizabeth was married to Emanuell Dungworth. 

I had by this time experienced that working Journey work would 
not advance me for I spent as fast as I got it and my Mother & Grand 

* Probably a daughter of the elder James Claypoole, and wife of Francis Cooke, a councilman of Phila- 
delphia under the charter of 1701 and afterwards a member of the Assembly. 

t Son of George and Alice Guest, early colonists. The father is said to have built the Blue Anchor 
Tavern. He died in 1685. His family lived in a cave on coming to Philadelphia, and, we are told by 
Watson, he built the first house in Philadelphia, which was unfinished at the time of Penn's arrival. The 
will of his widow, Alice Guest, is dated 4 August, and proved 5 September, 1705, names sons George and 
John; daughter Elizabeth, wife of Arthur Holton; daughter Phebe, wife of Anthony Morris ; and grandson 
William Say, son of William Say by a daughter of Alice Guest, then deceased. 

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JOURNAL OF JOHN BRINGHURST, JUNR 

Mother dead Resolved to try my Success at Sea for my Mother had 
Desir'd me not to go as long as Shee Lived. I shipped my self Cooper 
of the Brigt Elizabeth Thomas Reed [1713] Master for Surienam at three 
pounds Ten shillings pr month. Sd vessel belonged to Wiliam Allen,* 
We made Sd voyage in six months and on my Return I Larnt Naviga- 
tion with W"i Robbins. Shipd my self on board the Sloop Dimand 
Antho : Burton f Master for Surienam which Sd voyage we compleated 
in abt 4 months & half arrived 24"' gmo 1714. 

Shipped Mate on board Sloop King George, John Willson Master, 
Evan Owin :]: March* to Barbados the first mo. 1714/15. Compleated 
this Voyage in 4 mos and made one other voyage this Summer in Said 
Sloop to Barbados and Returned the Latter end of 9mo 171 5. 

Sd. Sloop lay up all Winter and I improved my Navagation and 
went in Sd Sloop the 3'' Voyage to Barbados in the Spring and Com- 
pleated this Voyage in Less than 3 mos 4th mo 1716, then went a fourth 
Voyage in Sd Sloop with same Master, Joshua Cochfield Merchant to 
Curaco where Said Sloop [was] seased for entering her cargo short 
of what it was by information of Sd Cochfield as was supposed Shee 
was tryed after the manner of the Dutch Condemned & Sold at Vendue 
to . . . for Eleven Hundred pieces of Eight. They fitted her out 
with a Cargo and sent her over to the Main where the Spaniards tuck 
her and her cargo from the Duch and there was an End of the King 
George. 

I was advised by the Governor & Fiscall to arest the Master for my 
wages which I did & in one Sute recovered my own and all the Sea- 
mens to the time the Vessel was Seased and after a Stay of about Seven 
weeks We tuck our Passage in a Sloop to New York, that is the Master, 
my Brother W"i Morrison who was one of the Sailors & my self and 
from New York by land to Phila where came the i6''i day of Qmo 

* He was prominent among the early merchants of Philadelphia, and father of Hon. William Allen, 
mayor of Philadelphia and chief justice of Pennsylvania. 

t Captain Burton was of Bucks Coutity. Pennsylvania. 

t Evan Owen was a wealthy merchant and a conspicuous man in the public life of Philadelphia, where 
he died in 1727. He was a member of Common Council from 1717 until 1724; alderman from 1724 until his 
death ; justice of the Court of Common Pleas from February, 1724, until his death ; treasurer of Philadelphia 
in 1724/26; member of the Assembly in 1725; master in chancery in 1726; and at his death was a member of 
the Provincial Council. He married. 11 December, 1711, Mary, daughter of Dr. Richard Hoskins; and 
9 February, 1727/28, his widow petitioned the Ori)hans' Court for leave to sell the real estate of her late 
husband, located in Pennsylvania and New Castle County. The petition set forth that she had three minor 
children. 

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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



1 71 6. When I came found the Master in Prison and I was arrested 
and gave five hundred pounds Bail to answer the Sute of Richd Hill * 
& owners of the Sloop afores'd. But never Brought it to a Tryall but 
after a considerable time Spent & nothing don Richd Proposed if I would 
consent to pay Twelve pounds and three pistoles to the Lawyers he 
would Discharge me this was the amount of my wages I Received at 
Coraca I considered myself out of Business & they had imployed all the 
Lawyers So consented to pay Sd Sum Demanded without any Law or 
Reason that ever I could Discover Since, so gave Bond for my money 
was all gon what with living at Coraca at five peices of Eight a week 
besides [ ] Expenses paying my Passage to New York & by land 

from thence & kept out of Business many months after was now got 
in Debt and Shipp'd my self mate of the Sloop John & Sarah belonging 
to W™ Allen Miles Hardin Master for Surienam & Virginia this was 
the 4th month 171 7. We arrived in York River the gt'i gmo here I 
Received my wages and Sent it up by Thomas Wells to my Sister to 
discharge all mv Debts. 

We left Virginia the 5th 11 month to Medera from thence to Phila 
where we arrived the 3d month 1718. 

I went in the Same Sloop one other voyage to Surienam mate and 
Cooper & had wages accordingly. We Tuck our Departure ii'l^ 4mo 
and arrived there 15th 5mo where we Stayed till 19th 7mo and arrived 
the 17"! 8mo at Phila. 

Having for Several Years had an intimate acquaintance with my 
friend Mary Claypoole and Concluded to Consumate my intentions of 
Marriage whenever my Circumstances in Life would admit having a 
Little Recruited my Loss in the Coraca Voyage had abo't forty pounds 
Clear Money I married the 30*11 gmo 1718 and Tuck a Large Room 
& Sellor of John Songhurst f for one Year where we lived till 2d 5mo 
1 719 when we Removed to a house and Cooper Shop I tuck of George 

* Richard Hill was mayor of Philadelphia at that time and a member of the Provincial Council. An 
interesting sketch of him is printed in Keith's " Provincial Councillors." 

t Son of John Songhurst, a writer and preacher of note in the Society of Friends, one of the passengers 
in the "Welcome," and a member of the first and several subsequent Assemblies. At his death he was 
probably residing in West Jersey, where his will was dated 26 7th month, 16S7, and proved 2 December, 1689, 
in which is named son John, and daughters Elizabeth and Sarah. Elizabeth married John Barber, who in 
his will, executed on the "Welcome," 20 7th month, 1682, names his wife as the "eldest daughter of John 
Songhurst." Sarah married (1) John Whitpain; (2) Charles Sanders; (3) Dr. Griffith Owen. 

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JOURNAL OF JOHN BRINGHURST, JUN^ 

Yard for Eleven pounds a Year and Lett the Residue of my time in 
John Songhursts Room to Mary Sutten afterwards Carter for 25/ 

My wife was Brought to Bed with a Dead Child the evening we 
Removed. I should first have taken notice the Sloop of which I came 
in Mate was Condemed & Laid up as not fitt to go again to sea and 
I being imployed the first winter by G. C. in hewing hhds staves for 
Jonathan Dickinson * on his wharf and thinking he & George Claypoole 
might be good Customers inclined to Stay a Shore and Sett up my trade 
at this lower part of the Citty and Communicating my thoughts to 
William Bevins he told me he had had an intent to Remove soni time 
if I would Take that place he would sell me all his Stock of Stuff &c 
which I consenting to do we made a Bargain & I tuck the House & 
Shop aforesd and this Year Tuck John Hooper prentice. 

1720. My wife Miscarried and was very sick for three months. 
Eliz. Claypoole came to live with us. 

My daughter Mary was born the i8'h 11 mo 1 720/1. 

1721. My wife was aflicted with a Great Deal of Sickness & 
weekness almost all the time She was with Child of my son John who 
was born 9th gmo 1722. I was then made the Constable, 5 5mo 1722. 
Jno Dickinson died this year. Joseph Warton f came prentice s'h mo 
1721. 

My daughter Elizabeth was born 4th i2mo 1723/4. My wife having 
been aflicted with weekness wich Rendered her oncapable of walking 
as far as the meeting hous which put me on to Buying a hors & so 
carried her Behind me for Some time & after Bo' a Side Sadie for her 
to Ride by herself a Boy going to take care of the hors for which pur- 

* Jonathan Dickinson was a Philadelphia merchant of much distinction. He was clerk of the Assembly 
in i&SS and 16S9, and was a member of that body in 1710 and in five other years. On 16 March, 1711, he was 
commissioned a justice of the courts of Philadelphia County, in which office he was serving at his death, 
and 2 October, 1711, he was chosen by Common Council an alderman of the city, and the following year was 
elected mayor. At the close of his mayoralty term, 5 October, 1713, he resumed the aldermanic office, in 
which he continued until i October, 1717, when he was again elected mayor for the usual term of one year, at 
the expiration of which time he again resumed the office of alderman, which he held until his death, in 1722. 
In the proceedings of Councils, 4 July, 1720, is this interesting entry : 

"Alderman Morris, Alderman Dickinson, Alderman Norris, and Alderman Logan, do undertake to lend 
the sum of one hundred pounds each for building forty-eight New Market Stalls." 

Mr. Dickinson is most widely known as the author of " God's Protecting Providence." 

t Joseph Wharton was a son of Thomas Wharton, the founder of the Wharton family of Philadelphia, 
and became a successful merchant. He resided at his death, in July, 1776, at his country seat, Walnut Grove, 
which was made famous as the scene of the Meschianza. (See " The Wharton Family," by Miss Anne 
HoUingsworth Wharton, page 9.) 

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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



pose I this Year [1724] Bot a Negro Boy of Peter Evans * wife named 
Prince But he grew so wicked I was forced to sell him into the Country 
& Bot [1725] Nemo and my pasture at Wekecoa and Tuck Thomas Bar- 
nett prentice. Was made Collector of Dock Ward. 

1726. This Year Tho. Armitt Died & his hous advertised in the 
Mercury for sale I told my wife I'de go & luck at it. She asked me 
how I wold pay for it however I went and the Widow showed me the 
hous all over & when I was Coming away she told me many people 
had been to look at it but had not bid her anything I was going to 
blame that Conduct in them till I recolected I was going to do so my 
Self & thereupon Bid her two hundred pounds & after Bot it for two 
hundred and twenty pounds though she would not make the Deeds to 
me because the money was due to John Richmond. So conveyed to 
him & he to me. I also sold the hous I lived in after I had fitted the 
hous I had Bot & had moved into it to Saml Bould But the Neighbores 
disliked having a Smith Shop neer them So took it again and sold 
it to W'" Beven who was Returned from Virginia (1727) where he'd 
lived at York River Most of the time after he left this place and got 
verry little Beforehand til he Returned to the place he left. I lett 
him have it five pounds Cheaper than I had sold it before he being 
the Person that had lett me into it where under Providence I got be- 
forehand and Carried on a Trade of Merchandise with a small Stock 
which helped me forward into a good way of getting. Went to Conis- 
togo with Govr. Gordin to treat with the Indians, George Claypoole and 
many others with us. Finding my wife was wholly incapacitated to 
walk a Broad I Bought a two wheeled Chaise for her to Ride in which 
answered the purpose well. 

1728 This Year Bo* a Negro woman from Tho^ Fenton. Tuck 
Evan Thomas prentice. Went to Long Island Yearly Meeting in 
Company with Geo Claypoole 3mo was made one of the overseers of 
the poor with Simon Edgell & Ed. Warner.f 

1730 My wife was Iirot to Bed of her son James 71'! lomo 1730. 

* Peter Evans was commissioned High Sheriff of Philadelphia in 1707, and served in that office several 
years ; also in that of Register-General of the Province. 

+ Edward Warner, a prominent Quaker, who was annually elected a member of the Assembly from 
1735 until his death in 1754. On 29 January, 1733, he married Anne, daughter of Hon. William Coleman, one 
of the justices of the Supreme Court of Peimsylvania. 

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JOURNAL OF JOHN BRINGHURST, JUNR 

My wifes uncel Geo. Claypoole died and not Long after five of his 
Children out of Six. My four Children had the small pox & my wife 
the mesels. This Year I was chosen one of the overseers of the Public 
Schools. 

1 73 1 My wife was Brought to Bed of son Thomas 17th 11 mo 
1 73 1. Lived two days. Buried the 20th. This Year Bot a negro woman 
called Pender. 

1732 Thos Barnett was free & his mother over persuaded me to 
take another of her sons prentice, this Year being her son William. 

1733 My son Joseph was born the 20th imo 1732/3. 

1734 Daughter Deborah born 21st lomo 1734 Died i6th iimo 
following. John Doyle came prentice. 

1736 Deborah 2d of that name born 15"! of 7mo. 

Agreed with William Watson Shipwright to build the Brigt Joseph 
between Jos. Jackman of Barbadoes, Jos Maddox * & myself in thirds. 

1737 My son Joseph had the small pox verry Badly this Year. 
Deborah the 2d Died i6*h 2mo this Year of the small pox. My son 
John was prentice to my self to learn my Trade of a Cooper. The Brigt 
Joseph landed Loaded & Sailed to Barbadoes Ralph Loftus Mt. This 
first Voyage did not answer and therefore we set Joseph a price to Buy 
or Sell & sent her to Barbadoes the Second Voyage and our friend John 
Fothergal & Leitch Seided went in her from hence 8t'i lomo. 

There was Collected by John Kinsey f & Self among ffriends of 
Phila. for this Eastern prince So Cal'd & Delivered him in Gould 100 
pistoles and we Delivered him at Same time for frd of Chester County 
twenty pistoles. 

1738 The Brigt Joseph Returned from Barbadoes & brought our 
partners Resolution to sell & Jos. Maddox & I bought his third & held 
her in Equal halfs. Capt" Loftus Staid at home to Marrie & John 
Sims went Master of Sd Brigt to Lisbon Loaded Chiefly on Freight 

* JosHliA Maddox, who was a merchant of Philadelphia, and died there iS April, 1759. He was elected 
a member of Common Council 4 October, 1739 ; was commissioned a justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 
1741 ; and in 1749 was chosen one of the first trustees of the College of Philadelphia, now the ITniversity of 
Pennsylvania, all of which positions he retained until his death. His portrait by Hesselius, in 1751, is 
mentioned in Scharf and Westcott's " History of Philadelphia," page 1512. 

t John Kinsev was, at the date mentioned, a noted lawyer and a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 
and later became attorney-general and chief justice of the Province. A sketch of him, prepared by the 
present writer, may be found in Appleton's " Cyclopaedia of American Biography." 

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THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 



with flour by William Allen, on her Return James Coultas * was Shipped 
Master & we Loaded her our selves to Lisbon Chiefly with flour & Re- 
turned by Medera. 

Took Alexander Pret prentice this Year. 

1739 Sent Brigt Joseph to Medera & one Voyage to Lisbon with 
wheat on our account. 

Went to Shrowsbury Yearly Meeting with Rob' Jordan & others. 

1740 This Year Cap" Coultas Stayed home We shipped John 
Hamilton master of the Brigt Joseph & Loaded her with wheat on our 
account. I went to the Yearly Meeting on Rode Island from thence 
to Boston in Company with W"i Buckley 4th month. 

7th mo 2d Bot Yi Sloop Union in Compy with Samuell Morris, 
Miller. Lett her to W"' Allen to freight to Jamaica. Called her the 
James & Shipt Thomas Collins Master, James Marshall Mate Sailed 
16th 

On my Return from Burlington Yearly Meeting the 25th was told 
the Brigt Joseph was Taken on her Return from Lisbon by the Spanish 
fleet Bound to West Indies as also Capt" Green and Capt Man in 2 
ships belonging to this port. 

8mo 31st Robt Jordan f applied to our Monthly Meeting for a Cer- 
tificate to Friends at Barbados he having a concern to visit it & some 
other islands where there is no Setled meetings of Frds which was 
given him 28th pmo following. But no companion offering to go with 
him my son John shewed a Desir to it which increasing I did not find 
freedom to forbid finding it agreeable to Robt Consented the 2d lomo 
when all was to Provide for his Voyage Robt having Taken his Passage 
& to Sail in a Week. However we got things in pretty good order by 
the time but the Vessel was full so gave my Son a Purs of Gould to 
bear his expence and laid in a good Sea Store. They Sailed from 
Chester about 4 in the afternoon the iQth & got out the Capes the 

* James Coultas commanded a company in Colonel Abraham Taylor's Regiment of Foot in 1747/4^. and 
in 1756 was commissioned leutenant-colonel of the regiment commanded by Colonel Jacob Duche. From 
1755 until 175S he was high-sheriff of Philadelphia, and was for several years a justice of the peace and the 
courts there. An interesting sketch of him, by Dr. Robert Patterson Robins, appears in " Pennsylvania 
Magazine of History," xi. 50. 

t Robert Jordan was a native of Virginia, and a noted Quaker minister. He removed from Virginia 
to Philadelphia, where he died 5 October. 1742. He married Mary, widow of Mayor Richard Hill and 
daughter of Nathan Stanbury, Esq'*. 

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iith lomo 1740. I received a Letter by the Pilott from the Cape 
Hinlopen of his being Sea Sick in the Bay. Rec^ a letter from Tho^ 
ColHns of his haveing been Blowen off of our Coast the 14* gmo 
after Springing his Mast & SpHtting his Sails & was got to Antigue 
& Refitting. 

This day imo 9 our fr^s mett at the Meeting Hous to begin a Sub- 
scription for the poor Suffers in Carrolina by a Dredful Fire whereby 
about three hundred houses was Consumed & Rob' Strettle,* Job. Good- 
son,! Joseph Noble & myself Desired to Receive Same & Lay it out in 
Bread & flour &c & send them. 

I mo loth This Day a Boat with a great Quantity of fish was 
Drawn over a great part of the River on the Ice but in the afternoon 
it broke loose & Drove. I gave 14s for half Cord Saplin hickry & this 
is the Sixth load Wood Ive had since I was out & thought myself well 
Stocked before this hard Winter tried it & many others. 

1 740/ 1 I mo 15th This Evening Sloop James Thos Collins Master 
arrived from Antigua wher She was Drove by Distress of weather 
after Splitting his Sails & Springing her mast put off of their Course 
the I4tli lomo 1740 & arrived at Antigua imo 30. William Perdue 
Shipped Master of Sloop James putt in a new mast and Sheathd her 
& Loaded with pipe staves & Bees wax for Madera. Left town the 
25th 2mo and the Capes the 9th 3mo, 1740. 

4-6 [1741] This Day I was taken Sick with a feaver & two days 
after with a Pain in the Side which Continued for abo* a week in which 
time I was Sweat, Vomited, Purged, Bled twice then Blister Plaster 
and Continued weak for five or six weeks after. 

6-14 Walter Rodman ^ his Wife & Sister came from Rode island 
the two first Lodged in my hous the other two at Cadwallader Foulks § 
(7-28) & Stayed here till after the Meeting then Returned. The 26. 
Robt Jordan, My wife, Son John & I went to Burlington, Came Back 28th 

* Robert Strettell was for twenty years a member of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania and 
held many other important offices. Keith's " Provincial Councillors " contains a sketch of Mr. Strettell and 
a record of many of his descendants. 

t Job Goodson was a physician of note in his day, and served several years in the Assembly. 

J Dr. Walter Rodman was a son of Dr. Clarke Rodman, of Newport, Rhode Island. (See " Genealogy 
of the Rodman Family," by Charles Henry Jones, Esq", page 17.) 

g Caowalader Fovlke was the father of Judah Fouike, Esq", who married Mary, daughter of John 
Bringhurst, the author of this diary. 

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being Second day. Fifth day my Daughter Mary & Sarali Dilwin 
Returned by Land from Trenton. 

8-21 John Bowers came up to Cort Ehz; Roberts. This year 
all the old assessors was Chosen & Jno Hyat for Sheriff by the Governor. 
Thos Chalkley went to Tortola. 

10-14 Capt" Bowers arrived from Antigua brought a letter to 
me from John Pickering Governor of Tortola & one from Tho^ Chalk- 
ley * to his wife. Reported Thos Chalkley was dead at Tortola. 

10-24 This day came our frd Samuell Hopwood & Jos Clark 
accompanied him from Rode island. 

1 1-5 Sam' Hopwood, Jos Clark, Rob' Jordan, Israel Pemberton,t 
John Dilwin :|: & Phoebe Morris § dined at our House. 

II- Captn Stamper arrived from Antigua & brought a letter from 
John Pickering Confirming the News of Thos Chalkleys decease at his 
hous in Tortola. 

12 Writ to Doct. Clark & Walter Rodman inclosed Pickerings 
letter of Tho^ Chalkleys Decease and one of John Bells printed Epistle 
by Jos. Clark. 

Agreed with Saml Morris for % Brig Carpenter Run to Madera 
& back. Paid him his freight 55£. Black Joseph Shipd in Sd Brig. 
Gave Cpt Cribb Jos', freedom if he slid be Taken by the Spaniards 
under my hand attested by Clement Plumsted under his seal. Writ 
to David Barclay & son for Insurance. 

1742 4mo 25 William Thomas with John Pickering's son John 
& Christopher Fleming came by Land from New York to my hous. 

John Cadwalader || & John Estaugh went to visit frds of Tortola. 

* Thomas Chalkley, a Quaker preacher and writer of considerable renown, was born at London, 
England, 3 March, 1675, and died in Tortola, West Indies, 4 September, 1741, and was for forty years a 
member of Friends Meeting at Philadelphia. He left an interesting journal of his " Life, Labors and 
Travels," which was published with a collection of his tracts, Philadelphia, 1747: New V'ork. iSoS. 

f Israel Pemberton, a leading merchant, and one of the most prominent members of the Society of 
Friends in Philadelphia. {See sketch of him and of other members of his family, prepared by the present 
writer and published in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 

t John Dilwyn, a prominent Quaker of Philadelphia, was chosen a member of Common Council 3 
October, 1732, and sat for the last time in that body, 9 October, 1747. 

§ Wife of Anthony Morris, and daughter of George and Alice Guest. She died in March, 176S. Mr. 
Morris was one of the chief merchants of the city, and was largely interested in the manufacture of iron. 
He served five years in the Assembly and was for forty-eight years a member of Common Council, serving 
first as councilman and aftervvards as alderman. In 1747 he was elected mayor, but did not accept the office. 

II John Cadwalader was a member of Abington Mouthy Meeting in Pennsylvania, and John Estaugh 
was a member of Haddonfield Monthy Meeting in New Jersey. Both were prominent Quaker ministers, 
and both died at Tortola on the visit named. 

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JOURNAL OF JOHN BRINGHURST, JUNR 

Left this 13'h 8mo 1744 when they both ended their days in tlieir 
Masters service tlie lomo following. 

William Thomas Left my hous 2d mo 2d & New Cassel the 3d 
to Return to Tortola by way of Antigua. 

John Oxley arrived 3mo 9th & was brought to my hous in a poor 
State of helth his Servant Sebina came with him and Peter Fern he 
Continued to grow weaker & weaker & departed this Life the 23d Was 
bore to Meeting the 24th & interred 

Edmon Peckover was at Meeting & Spoke with Power. 

John Gurley in the Nonparel from Tortola arrived 6-3 Sailed from 
hence the 14th 11 mo 1743. 

9-20-1744 My Son John Sailed in Sloop Sea Ranger Thos Fowle 
Master to Barbadoes on account helth & Trade. 

Brig Argyle Thos Coutam Master Consigned to him imo 2d. 

3mo 20 1745 My son John went to Jamaca in Brig Conclusion 

Robt Edes Master Consigned him, also Sloop Diamond John Trott 
Master Was loaded & consigned to him. On his Return was Cast 
away in the Constitution in Portmorant Keys But Saved their money 
& some clothes. 

3-10-1746 Son John Went to Jamaca in Sloop Ann, Benj James 
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CLARKSON FAMILY 



Reverend David Clarkson, D.D. = Elizabeth Holcroft. 
Honorable Matthew Clarkson = Catharine Van Schayck. 



Captain Matthew Clarkson = Cornelia De Peyster. 



Honorable Matthew Clarkson = Mary Boude. 

George Bringhurst = Anna Clarkson. 



Robert Ralston Bringhurst = Mary Wood. 



Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst == Mary Jane Stewart. 



Captain Robert Ralston Bringhurst. 



REV. DAVID CLARKSON, U.D. 
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NOTES ON THE CLARKSON FAMILY 




HE HONORABLE MATTHEW CLARKSON, 
founder of the Clarkson Family of New York 
and Philadelphia, came to America in the ship 
" Beaver," in 1690/91, under appointment from 
the king to the Secretaryship of the Colony of 
New York. He was a son of the Rev. David 
Clarkson, D.D., an eminent English divine, and 
his mother, Elizabeth Clarkson, is said to have 
been a daughter of Sir Henry Holcroft by his wife Lettice Aungiers, 
daughter of Sir Francis Aungiers and granddaughter of Edward Fitz- 
gerald, Earl of Kildare, of Ireland. 

Upon his arrival in New York, 29 January, 1690/91, Mr. Clarkson 
entered upon his duties as Secretary of the Colony,* and continued 
to fill the position until his death, in 1702. On 19 January, 1692, he 
married Catharine, daughter of Captain Gerritt Goosen Van Schayck,t 
of Albany, New York, by his wife Annetje Leivens. 

* In 1S68 he was chosen one of the vestrj- of Trinity Church, New York, and the pew-right which he held 
in the first building has remained in the family to this day. 

t Captain Van Schayck was a merchant and brewer at Albany in 1649. On 8 April, 1656. he was nomi- 
nated by the " Court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck," to the " Worshipfull, Valiant, and honorable Herr 
general, and right honorable Sirs of the Council," for appointment as magistrate or commissary at Albany, 
but does not appear to have received such appointment until 1662, when he sat in court as one of the magis- 
trates. He doubtless held such position many years, as he is known to have been in office in 1663, 1667, 1668, 
l67i,and 1672, and among those who served with him were Colonel Philip Pieterse Schuyler and Richard 
Van Rensellaer. On 23 September, 1670, he was commissioned lieutenant of the troop of horse at Albany, 
under the command of Captain Jeremiah Van Rensellaer, and was later promoted captain. 

His widow, Annetje Leivens, removed from Albany to New York and joined the Dutch Church there, 

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NOTES ON THE CLARKSON FAMILY 

Children, all born in New York, and baptized in the Old Dutch 
Church of that city : 

I. Elizabeth Clarkson, baptized 8 January, 1693. Major Charles Lodo- 

wyck, an eminent New Yorker, was sponsor at her baptism. 
II. David Clarkson, baptized 19 August, 1694; died in 1751; was a 
prominent merchant and the grandfather of Major-General Mat- 
thew Clarkson, a distinguished officer of the Revolutionary army. 
He married, 25 January, 1724. Ann Margaret, daughter of Rev. 
Bernardus Freeman, of New York. 

III. Levinus Clarkson, baptized 6 September, 1696; Johannes VanCort- 

landt being a sponsor at his baptism. 

IV. Matthew Clarkson, baptized 9 April, 1699. (See below.) 

CAPTAIN MATTHEW CLARKSON, third son of Hon. Matthew 
Clarkson by his wife Catharine Van Schayck, was born in New York 
City, where he was baptized 9 April, 1699, ^"^ where he died in 1739. 
He was a successful merchant there, and his family occupied a promi- 
nent position in the social life of the city. At the time of his death 
he commanded one of the military companies of New York, to which 
position he was commissioned in 1738. He married, in 1720, Cornelia, 
daughter of Captain Johannes De Peyster by his wife Anne Bancker. 
(See Notes on De Peyster Family.) Upon the death of Captain 
Clarkson, his widow married Rev. Gilbert Tennent, an eminent Pres- 
byterian clergyman, who was then pastor of a church at New Bruns- 
wick, New Jersey, but who shortly afterwards accepted a call to the 
Second Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia, and there removed with 
his wife and her unmarried children, to which removal may be ascribed 
the origin of the Philadelphia branch of the Clarkson family. Mrs. 
Tennent died at Philadelphia, 25 May. 1753. 

Children of Captain Matthew Clarkson, all born in New York, and 
baptized in the Old Dutch Church there : 

I. Catharine Clarkson, baptized 25 January, 1721 ; married, 1739, 
Samuel Hazard, Esq''", by whom she had Ebenezer Hazard, Post- 
master-General of the United States (1782/1789), and the father 
of Samuel Hazard, the distinguished annalist. 

4 September, 1691, and there died in 1702. Her will, dated 27 April, and proved 19 November, 1702, names 
son Levinus, daughter Gerritje Dryer, daughter Catherine, wife of Matthew Clarkson, daughter Maria, wife of 
John Van Cortlandt, daughter Margaretta, and granddaughter Margaret, wife of Robert Livingston, Junior.* 



* New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1976, page 56. 

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HON. MAITHEW Cl.ARKSON, MAYOR OF I'HII.ADELI'IIIA 
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NOTES ON THE CLARKSON FAMILY 

II. Matthew Clarkson, baptized lo April, 1723; died young. 

III. John Clarkson, baptized 30 June, 1725 ; died young. 

IV. Anna Clarkson, baptized 10 September, 1727; married, as second 

wife, 13 May, 1761, Rev. Samuel Finley, D.D., President of Prince- 
ton College. 
V. Matthew Clarkson, baptized 20 June, 1729; died young. 
VI. David Clarkson, born 5 January, 1731. 

VII. Matthew Clarkson, baptized 25 April, 1733; died 5 October, 1800. 
VIII. Levinus Clarkson, baptized 14, August, 1734. 
IX. Cornelia Clarkson, baptized 12 October, 1737. 
X. Gerardus Clarkson, baptized 26 December, 1738; died 19 September, 
1790. He was a physician of Philadelphia; was a surgeon with 
the Pennsylvania Troops in the Revolution ; was one of the 
founders of the College of Physicians, and its first treasurer ; was 
a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of the 
American Philosophical Society. He married. 13 May, 1761, Mary 
Flower, daughter of Samuel Flower, of Philadelphia. Many of 
Dr. Clarkson's descendants have been prominent. 

HONORABLE MATTHEW CLARKSON, son of Captain Mat- 
tliew Clarkson by his wife Cornelia De Peyster, was born in New York, 
in April, 1733, where he was baptized in the Old Dutch Church, 25th of 
that month. When he was about ten years of age he removed with his 
mother and step-father, Rev. Gilbert Tennent, to Philadelphia, where 
he resided during the remainder of his life, and there rose to prominence. 
He was carefully educated under the direction of his eminent step-father, 
and it is believed that he was intended for professional hfe, but he made 
choice of a business career, and as early as 1760 he is found to have 
been engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he continued throughout 
his life. One of the earliest mentions of his name in Philadelphia is 
under date of 5 October, 1762, when he presented to Common Council 
a " Ground Plot of Philadelphia," which he proposed to publish, with 
a dedication to the city, whereupon Council voted " to give the said 
Matthew Clarkson the simi of Ten pistoles towards defraying the ex- 
pense of the plate, on condition, nevertheless, that the public Squares 
laid down in the original plan of the City be so described that the 
claim of the inhabitants of the said City thereto may not be prejudiced."* 
Some time later he became a notary public, and on 19 August, 1771, 
he was commissioned a justice of the Court of General Quarter Sessions 

* Minutes of Common Council, 676. 
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NOTES ON THE CLARKSON FAMILY 

of the Peace and of the Courts of Common Pleas for the city and county 
of Philadelphia, to which positions he was recommissioned, 2"] April, 
1772.* 

Mr. Clarkson was an ardent patriot in the Revolution. In 1775, 
when the first troops were organized in Philadelphia, he was commis- 
sioned quartermaster of the First Battalion of Associators, and on 1 1 
December of that year he was chosen by the Continental Congress one 
of the commissioners to sign the four million dollars of bills of credit 
ordered printed by that body, and on 9 March, 1776, to a similar posi- 
tion, to sign the four million dollars of bills ordered to be issued at that 
time; and on 19 August, that year, he was chosen by the same body 
one of those " to oversee the printing of Continental bills." 

In 1776 the Assembly of Pennsylvania recommended that the Coun- 
cil of Safety appoint " a proper person Marshall of the Court of Ad- 
miralty for this Province," in response to which, the Council, 10 April, 
1776, " having considered the application of the different candidates," 
resolved, " That Mr. Matthew Clarkson be, and he hereby is appointed 
Marshall," which important position he held until 1780. 

He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Pennsylvania, which 
institution was formed in 1780, with the object of furnishing provisions 
for the Continental army, his subscription to the enterprise being £2500. 
In 1785 he was elected a delegate to Congress, but declined the honor. 

In 1790, under the new City Charter which then went in force, 
Mr. Clarkson was elected one of the Aldermen of Philadelphia. The 
Board of Aldermen at that time elected from their number the mayor 
of the city, and on 16 April, 1792, Mr. Clarkson was chosen mayor, 
and was re-elected in 1793, 1794, and 1795, in which office he served 
with conspicuous ability, and upon relinquishing the mayoralty he re- 
sumed his place as Alderman, which he retained until 1798. 

In 1768 he became a member of the American Philosophical Society; 
was for some years clerk of the Philadelphia Contributionship and a 
director of the Philadelphia Library; in 1794 he was elected a director 
of the Bank of the United States, and was for some years a vestryman 
of Christ Church. He died at Philadelphia, 5 October, 1800, and was 
buried in Christ Church burying-ground. He married, 13 June, 1753, 

♦ Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, ix. 760; x. 46. 
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NOTES ON THE CLARKSON FAMILY 

Mary, daughter of Thomas Boude, of Philadelphia, by his wife Sarah 
Newbold.* She was born at Philadelphia, 14 February, 1735, and died 
there, 27 November, 1794. Mrs. Elizabeth Drinker, in her *' Journal" 
(now published), thus mentions Mrs. Clarkson, under date of 28 No- 
vember, 1794: *' M. Clarkson, wife to our present Mayor, was buried 
this afternoon. She was a pretty girl when Polly Bond. I went to 
school with her." 

Children, all born in Philadelphia: 

I. Cornelia Clarkson, t born 7 June, 1755; died June, 1756. 
II. Thomas Clarkson, born 6 December, 1756. 

III. Anna Clarkson, born 23 June, 1758; married George Bringhurst. 

(See Bringhurst Family, No. 42.) 

IV. Matthew Clarkson, born 3 June, 1761. 
V. Levinus Clarkson, born 14 August, 1762. 

VI. Cornelia Clarkson, born 29 March, 1764. 
VII. David Clarkson, born 28 March, 1765. 

VIII. Sarah Clarkson, born i April, 1766; died 29 December, 1820; mar- 
ried, 24 November. 1785, Robert Ralston, Esq*"®.! 
IX. Gerard Clarkson, born 7 July, 1772. 

* Saram Newbold was horn 20 November, 1700, and was a daughter of Michael Newbold, Esq"*, of 
Burlington County, New Jersey, by his wife Rachel, daughter of John Clayton. Michael Newbold was a 
justice of the peace of Burlington County, where he was a large landowner. His father, Michael Newbold, 
bought land in the county in 1677. and in a deposition dated in 16S2 he is styled "of Sheffield Park Gate," 
Yorkshire, England, at which time he was aged fifty-eight years. 

t The eldest daughter, Cornelia, was baptized at the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and the 
other children were baptized at Christ Church. 

J Robert Ralston was one of the most prominent citizens of Philadelphia in his day. He was born in 
Chester County, Pennsylvania, 18 December, 1761, and died at Philadelphia, 11 August, 1S36. At an early age 
he engaged in business as a merchant in that city, and amassed a large fortune in the East India trade, of 
which he gave liberally to philanthropic enterprises. In 1793, when the French privateers were inflicting 
great damage to American commerce, Mr. Ralston was chosen, at a public meeting of merchants, one of the 
committee to collect information respecting such damage, and to lay the same before the President of the 
United States, and in 1794 he was secretarj- of a public meeting of citizens to raise funds for the relief of the 
families of the soldiers who marched to Western Pennsylvania to suppress the Whiskey Insurrection. In 
1795 he was chosen by the Legislature one of the trustees to distribute funds appropriated by the State for 
the relief of the French refugees. In 17 — he was elected a member of Common Council, and in iSoo he was 
the president of that body, and was later elected a member of Select Council, over which body he presided 
from 1806 until i9o8. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and in iSoS was one of its committee 
to raise funds for the relief of the sailors in want on account of the Embargo Act then in force. In 1816 he 
became a founder and one of the first directors of the Second Bank of the United States, and during the same 
year he was a founder of the Religious Historical Society, of wliich he was elected vice-president the fol- 
lowing year. He was also, during that year, elected president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting 
Public Economy. In 1819 he was secretary' of a public meeting held at the mayor's office in aid of the sufTerers 
of the great fire at Wilmington, North Carolina, and was also secretary of a meeting held at Independence 
Hall about the same time to consider an application to Congress to resist the extension of slaver\' " in the 
new States," and was made a member of the committee of correspondence to further such object. Mr. Ralston 
was a founder and one of the first trustees of the Philadelphia Exchange, and was active in promoting the 
construction of the building which still stands at Third and Dock Streets. He was also active in furthering 

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the organization of the Presbyterian Board of Education, and was its first president, and contributed largely 
to the establishment of the Widows' and Orphans' Asylum and the Mariners' Church in Philadelphia, and he 
founded the Philadelphia Bible Society, which was the first of the kind on this continent. He was a member 
of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which he was ruling elder from 1802 until his death. His funeral 
sermon, preached by Rev. Ashbel Green, D.D-, is published. 

Mr. Ralston's children by his wife Sarah Clarkson were: i. Robert Ralston. 2. William Cox Ralston, 
born 27 October, 1786; died 18 September, iSii. 3. Maria Ralston, born 25 December, 17S7. 4. Matthew 
Clarkson Ralston, bom 21 August, 1789. 5. Rebecca Ralston, born 3 March, 1791. 6. Elizabeth Ann Ralston, 
born 2 November, 1793. 7. Ashbel Green Ralston, born 11 October, 1796. 8. Gerardus Ralston, born 19 Sep- 
tember, 1798. 9. Sarah Ralston, born 10 February, 1800. 10. Abigail Hazard Ralston, bom 13 September, 
1801. II. Samuel Finley Ralston, baptized 16 January, 1803. 12. Henry Rutgers Ralston, baptized i June, 1806. 

His will, dated 7 June, 1831, names son Robert ; son William, " deceased ;" son Matthew Clarkson ; son 
Ashbel Green; son Gerard; daughter Abigail Proudfit; son Henry Rutgers; "late daughter" Sarah Cox, 
and her children, Robert Ralston Cox, Maria Cox, Sarah Ralston Cox, and John Cox; daughter Maria and 
her son, Robert Ralston Dorsey ; Sarah Clarkson and her two sisters, " daughters of my late brother-in-law," 
Levinus Clarkson ; two cousins, Rebecca Ralston and Mary Ann Eyre, daughters of " my late uncle George 
Ralston;" " children of my late half-sister," Sarah Slemons ; Benjamin Dean, " late of Washington, now of 
Philadelphia, son of late half-brother, William Dean." A codicil to the will, dated 8 July, 1S34, speaks of his 
daughter Maria as deceased, and names her children : Robert Ralston Dorsey Elizabeth, wife of James Cox. 
and Maria Dorsey, 




NOTES ON THE DE 
PEYSTER FAMILY 



Johannes De Peyster, Esq'° = Cornelia Lubberts. 
Captain Johannes De Peyster = Anne Bancker. 
Captain Matthew Clarkson = Cornelia De Peyster. 



Honorable Matthew Clarkson = Mary Boude. 

George Briiighurst = Anna Clarkson. 
Robert Ralston Bringhurst = Mary Wood. 



Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst = Mary Jane Stewart. 



Captain Robert Ralston Bringhurst. 




NOTES ON THE DE PEYSTER FAMILY 




OHANNES DE PEYSTER, ESQRE one of the 
early emigrants to New Amsterdam (New 
York), and the founder of the noted American 
family of that surname, was of French descent, 
but a native of Harlem in Holland, whither his 
ancestors had fled to escape the persecution of 
Charles IX. against his Protestant subjects. He 
came to New York as early as 1649, ^"d there 
engaged in mercantile pursuits, and rose to prominence in public life. 
His first position was a military one, that of adelborst or cadet in one 
of the Burgher corps, to which he was appointed in 1653.* He was 
one of " The Six" who were appointed to draw up the first charter for 
New Amsterdam, and under which a municipal government was or- 
ganized in the name of the " Schout, Burgomasters, and Schepens." 
In 1655 he was commissioned by Governor Stuy\'esant one of the 
schepens, to which position he was again chosen in 1656, 1658, and 
1662. As one of the schepens he became a member of what was known 
as the Burgomaster's Court, which body governed the affairs of the 
city, and exercised executive, legislative, and judicial powers. 

Many governmental changes followed the conquest of New York 
by the English, among which was a change in the corporate title of 
the city, from that before given, to " Mayor, Alderman, and Sheriff," 
and the court formed by these officials was afterwards known as the 



* O'Callaghan's Histor>' of New Netherlands, i. 559. 
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NOTES ON THE DE PEYSTER FAMILY 

" Mayor's Court." The decree of Governor Richard Nicolls making 
this change is dated 12 June, 1665, ^t which time Captain Thomas 
Willett was appointed mayor. The following year Johannes De Peyster 
was chosen alderman, to which position he was re-elected in 1667, 1669, 
1673, and 1676. In 1677 he was deputy mayor of the city, and in 
that year declined the mayoralty on account of his imperfect acquaint- 
ance with the English language. 

In 1668 he was chosen one of the two Overseers of Orphans, or 
WeesmasterS; a trust of large importance, the overseers, or " Orphan 
Masters," as they are usually called, having the possession and control 
of all the estates of orphans in the city. 

On 2 April, 1670, the Mayor's Court selected four men " for the 
laying out and Paving of the Streets," one of whom was Mr. De Peyster. 

He was a member of the Dutch Church of New York, and served 
in the offices of deacon and church warden. 

The date of Mr. De Peyster's death has not been ascertained, but 
it is believed that he died prior to 1686, although no mention of his 
widow as such, who survived him many years, is found until 1689. 
He married, in the Old Dutch Church at New York, 17 December, 1651, 
Cornelia Lubberts, also from Harlem, Holland, She is said to have 
been a relative of the De La Noys, and probably a sister of Marritie 
Lubberts, wife of Abraham De La Noy, who was keeper of the " City 
Tavern" in 1652, and the first of that family in America. Mrs. De 
Peyster made her will 19 January, 1699, with two codicils, the first 
dated 22 December, 171 1, and the second in 1714. It was admitted 
to probate 25 September, 1725. Supposing that to have been the year 
of her death, and that she was eighteen years old when married, her 
death must have occurred at the advanced age of ninety-two years. 

Children of Johannes De Peyster, Esqi'e, by his wife Cornelia Lub- 
berts, all baptized in the Old Dutch Church in New York : 

I. Johannes De Peyster, baptized August, 1653 ; died in infancy. 
II. Johannes De Peyster, baptized 7 October, 1654 ; died young. 
III. Abraham De Peyster, baptized 8 July, 1657; died 8 August, 1728; 
was one of the leading men of his day in New York. He was a 
captain, afterwards colonel, of militia ; alderman, afterwards 
mayor of the city; judge of the Supreme Court; member of the 
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Governor's Council, and, as its presiding officer, at one time acting 
governor of the colony, and in 1706 was appointed treasurer of 
the colonies of New York and New Jersey. 
IV. Maria De Peyster, born 5 September, 1659; died 3 May, 1701 ; mar- 
ried (i) Paulus Schrick; (2) John Spratt; (3) David Pro- 
voost, Junr, Mayor of New York in 1699. She had issue by the 
second marriage only. In an article in the " New York Genea- 
logical and Biographical Record" for July, 1878, she is thus 
mentioned : 

" This lady, whom we regard, by reason of her birtli and alhaiices. as one 
of the most remarkable women boni in New Amsterdam, was thrice married, 
and it is hazarding little of historical accuracy to say that a complete account 
of her family connections, by birtfi and marriage, would include a fuller his- 
tory of the civil and military affairs of colonial times than the same account 
of any other person born during the Dutch possession of Manhattan Island.*' 

V. Isaac De Peyster, baptized 16 April, 1662 ; married 27 December, 
1687, Maria Van Baal, of Albany, and had ten children, all 
baptized in the Dutch Church in New York. 
VI. Jacob De Pevster, baptized 23 December, 1663 ; d. s. p. 
VII. Johannes De Peyster, baptized 21 September, 1666. (Of him see fol- 
lowing page.) 
VIII. CoRNELis De Peyster, baptized 4 October, 1673; was a captain of 
the militia, and otherwise prominent. He married (i), 19 Sep- 
tember, 1694, Maria Bancker; (2) 21 July, 1711, Cornelia Dissin- 
ton, widow of Alexander Stewart. Had issue by both wives. 
IX. Cornelia De Peyster, baptized 4 December, 1678 ; married, 18 Au- 
gust, 1699, Alexander Stewart. She died without issue, and Mr. 
Stewart tnarried, for second wife, Cornelia Dissinton. 



CAPTAIN JOHANNES DE PEYSTER, seventh child of Johannes 
De Peyster, Esqi'e, was baptized in New York City, 21 September, 1666, 
and died tliere, 25 September, 171 1. He was a prominent and influential 
citizen, and highly esteemed for his public worth, as well as for his 
private virtues. On 8 October, 1686, he was commissioned ensign 
of a company of Foot in New York City, and was preferred to a lieu- 
tenancy in the same company, 13 December, 1689, his brother Abraham 
being then in command of the same. In 1698 he was mayor of New 
York, and from that year until 1701 was a member of the Colonial 
Assembly. In 1700 he was commissioned captain of a troop of horse, 
which position he probably retained several years. 

He married, at Albany, New York, 10 October, 1688, Anne, daugh- 

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NOTES ON THE DE PEYSTER FAMILY 

ter of Gerrit Bancker, Esqre,* by his wife Elizabeth Dirckse Van Eps, 

of that city. She was born at Albany, i April, 1670, and died . 

Children of Captain Johannes De Peyster by his wife Anne Bancker, 
all born in New York, and baptized in the Old Dutch Church of that 
city: 

I. Johannes De Peyster, baptized 24 July, 1689; died young. 
II. Gerardus De Peyster, baptized 23 January, 1691 ; died young. 

III. Elizabeth De Peyster, baptized 25 September, 1692. 

IV. Johannes De Peyster, baptized 14 April, 1694. 

V. Cornelia De Peyster, baptized 15 December, 1695; married Mat- 
thew Clarkson. (See Clarkson Lineage.) 
VI. Gerardus De Peyster, baptized 10 October, 1697. 
VII. Anna De Peyster, baptized 24 January, 1700; married Jan Van 
Teerling. 
VIII. William De Peyster, baptized 15 October, 1701 ; died young. 
IX. Abraham De Peyster, baptized 27 February, 1704. 
X. William De Peyster, baptized 8 May, 1709; married Margaretta 
Roosevelt. 
XI. Catharine De Peyster, baptized 22 July, 1711. 

* Gerrit Bancker came to Albany, New York, about 1656, and was probably from Amsterdam, Hol- 
land, where he had a brother William living as late as 1700. He was a merchant, and owned considerable 
real estate at Albany, also at Schenectady. In a bond dated 28 August, 1660, he is styled " the Honorable 
Gerrit Bancker." He married Elizabeth, daughter of Dirk Van Eps by his wife Maritie Damens. His will, 
dated 25 November, 1690, was proved 7 May, 1691. After his death his widow removed to New York and 
opened a store there, where she died 3 July, 1693. The inventory filed in her estate shows that she had 
houses and lands in Schenectady, Albany, Catskill, and New York, besides a large amount of personal 
property. His son Evert Bancker was a leading citizen at Albany, and was mayor of that city in 1695/96, and 
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APTAIN ROBERT RALSTON BRINGHURST, 
of Philadelphia, is descended from the Boudes of 
that city. His great-great-grandfather, Hon. Mat- 
thew Clarkson, of Philadelphia, married Mary 
Boude,* who was a daughter of Thomas Boucle, 
Esq^e, by his wife Sarah Newbold,t and grand- 
daughter of Grimstone Boude, a merchant of the 
same place. The following interesting article on the Boudes, by Miss 
Emma St. Clair Whitney, is from the " American Historical Register," 
vol. i. pp. 367-370. 




"SOME STORIES OF COLONIAL FAMILIES. 

"BOUDE OF PENNSYLVANIA. 

" The Boude family was of French origin, and a branch of the 
family settled in county Essex, England, as early as, if not before, the 
time of Henry IV. Grimstone Boude, who was the ancestor of that 
branch of the family from which the Boudes of Pennsylvania are de- 
scended, was born in England about the year 1661. He was the grand- 
son of Adlord Boude, Esq^e, who married Henrietta, the daughter of 
Sir Edward Grimston. Their son John was the father of Adlord and 
Grimstone Boude, who came to America. 

" The Grimston or Grimstone (originally De Grymestone) House 
is traced in the English peerage to Normandy, and in the year 1066 
is recorded the granting of the Grimstone estate in Yorkshire by Wil- 
liam the Norman. A member of the family was standard-bearer to 

* See Notes on the Clarkson Family, page 119. 

t Daughter of Michael Newbold, Esq", of Burlington County, New Jersey. 

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William at the battle of Hastings. Another (Sir Harbottle Grime- 
stone, born 1596, died 1683) was speaker of the House of Commons 
at the Restoration and Master of the Rolls. The present representative 
of the family in the English peerage is Lord Verulam, Viscount Grim- 
ston. The motto of the family is ' Mediocra firma,' — i.e., the middle 
station is the safest. 

" Grimstone Boude and his brother came to America near the close 
of the seventeenth century, and settled at Perth Amboy as agents of 
the East New Jersey proprietors. In ' Documents Relating to the 
Colonial History of New Jersey,' vol. iii., mention is made of a depo- 
sition of ' Grimstone Boude, merchant, aged thirty-eight or thereabouts.' 
The document is dated May 10, 1699; the name in the opening sen- 
tence is written without the final e, but the signature has it. 

" Grimstone Boude afterwards removed to Philadelphia, where he 
died April i, 1716. In his will, which is on record in Philadelphia, 
dated February 3, 1715, he states that he is a merchant, and mentions 
his wife and five children by name. He wills as follows : 

" ' To my eldest son, Joseph Boude, one gold ring of the value of 
twenty shillings lawful money of America. To my son, Samuel Boude, 
my largest silver tank'd, one silver porringer, one silver spoon, one 
feather bed with the furniture and appurtenances thereunto belonging, 
and the sum of ten pounds lawful money of America. To my son, 
John Boude, my quart silver tankard and one feather bed with the fur- 
niture and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and the sum of ten pounds 
lawful silver money. Unto my son, Thomas Boude, my least silver 
tankard, one feather bed with the furniture, etc., and the sum of ten 
pounds lawful silver money. Unto my daughter, Henrietta Boude, one 
pint silver mug, one silver porringer, and one silver spoon, one feather 
bed with the furniture, etc., and my negro woman, Joan, and the sum 
of ten pounds lawful silver money. Unto my dear and well-beloved 
wife, Mary Boude, all and singular the residue and remainder of my 
personal estate. I nominate and appoint my said wife sole executrix 
of this my last will.' 

"The eldest son, Joseph Boude, married, September 5, 1716, at 
Christ Church, Philadelphia, Elizabeth Baldwin. Their son Thomas 
was buried in Christ Church burying-ground August 10, 1769. No 

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NOTES ON THE BOUDE FAMILY 

descendants of this pair are now known. Joseph subsequently removed 
to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His name appears among the members 
of the Lancaster Library Company, which was organized in November, 
1759 (see "History of Lancaster County," by Ellis and Evans), and 
was yet living there in 1776, where he was visited by Matthew Clark- 
son, who married his niece. Nothing more is known of him. 

" The second son, Samuel Boude, married Deborah, daughter of 
Peter Cox, and lived in Philadelphia, where he died May 19, 1733. In 
his will he describes himself as a merchant, and mentions his wife 
Deborah and two children, John and Henrietta. His son John, born 
November 17, 1728, died before he attained his majority, and Henrietta, 
born January 17, 1731/32, died January 25, 1792; buried in Christ 
Church burying-ground. She married. May 10, 1753, Michael Hillegas, 
first Treasurer of the United States, and lived in Philadelphia. From 
them are descended the Anthony, Dillard, Hobart, Kelly, Nicholls, Smith, 
Whelen, and Whitney families. 

" Grimstone Boude's third son, John, married Gertrude , and 

lived in the southern part of Philadelphia (Wicaco), where he died 
March 23, 1747/48. In his will he describes himself as an Inn-holder, 
and mentions his wife, two children under age, and one unborn, and 
bequeaths quite a large estate to them. He spells his name Bood, which 
was the pronunciation at that time, as Bowd became afterwards. The 
names of his surviving children were Jonathan and Jemima. The rec- 
ords of Christ Church, Philadelphia, show he had other children, — Mar- 
garet, Rebecca, and Joseph,— who evidently died before their father. 
They also show the death of Lydia, the posthumous child referred to 
in his will. Nothing more is known of his children. 

"Thomas, the fourth son of Grimstone Boude, born about 1700, 
died in Philadelphia September 11, 1781. He married Sarah Newbold, 
and had eleven children, six of whom died in infancy. 

" Samuel, their eldest child, born about 1723/24, studied medicine 
in Philadelphia, and removed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he 
married, January 16, 1749, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Blun- 
ston) Bethel. He practised medicine in Lancaster, and seems to have 
been a very prominent man. His name appears among the subscribers 
to the building fund of St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in 1750, 

131 



NOTES ON THE BOUDE FAMILY 

and also among the original members of the Lancaster Library Asso- 
ciation in 1759. He removed to Garden Point, a few miles distant from 
Charlestown, Maryland, about 1766. It is probable he died there not 
many years after, though neither the time nor place of his death is 
recorded. They had eight children, — Sarah, Thomas, Sarah, Samuel, 
Elizabeth, Mary Bethel, John, and Henrietta. From them are descended 
the Heise, Merrill, Whitehill, Barber, Clingan, and numerous other 
families. 

" Elizabeth, third daughter of Thomas and Sarah Boude, born De- 
cember 5. 1726, married John Nigely (also spelled Neighly, or Naglee) 
at Christ Church, November 14, 1745. 

" Mary, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Boude, born February 14, 
1735; died November 27, 1794; married, June 13, 1753, Matthew 
Clarkson, who was a prominent merchant and citizen of Philadelphia, 
and died October 5, 1800. He was mayor of Philadelphia for three 
terms, and occupied that office during the terrible epidemic of yellow 
fever in that city in 1793/94. He conducted himself with great bravery 
and discretion. From this couple are descended the Clarkson, Bring- 
hurst, Ralston, and other families. 

" Joseph, tenth child of Thomas and Sarah Boude, born December 
13, 1740, was a soldier in the Revolution; taken prisoner, and, accord- 
ing to tradition, died on one of the enemy's terrible prison-ships in New 
York harbor. 

" Thomas, eleventh child of Thomas and Sarah Boude, born August 
10, 1743, was a sea-captain and was lost in a shipwreck. 

" Henrietta, youngest child and only daughter of Grimestone Boude, 
was baptized November 19, 17 10, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, and 
married, August 30, 1733, in that church, to Richard Sewell. 

" The Boude family in this generation is represented in nearly every 
State in the Union. Many of the name are still living in Maryland, Vir- 
ginia, and Kentucky. 

" In conclusion of this brief sketch, I desire to express my great 
obligation to Dr. John Knox Boude, of Washington, D. C, for valuable 
assistance in its preparation. 

" Emma St. Clair Whitney." 



132 



NOTES ON THE BOUDE FAMILY 



To the foregoing article by Miss Whitney may be added a few facts. 

Thomas Boude, the father of Mrs. Mary Clarkson, was a master 
bricklayer, and was employed in the mason work in the construction of 
Independence Hall.* He was a member of St. John's Lodge, the first 
Masonic organization established in Philadelphia, and he was Coroner 
of Philadelphia from 1754 until 1759. On 24 May, 1781, he conveyed 
a house and lot in Front Street, Philadelphia, to his daughter, Mary 
Clarkson. t His brother, Dr. Samuel Boude, was Chief Burgess of Lan- 
caster in 1 76 1, and was the father of Samuel Boude and Thomas Boude, 
officers in the Revolutionary Army. Samuel was Second Lieutenant in 
the Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment, and was killed, 1 1 September, 
1777, in the battle of Brandywine. Thomas was commissioned, 8 July, 
1776, Second Lieutenant in the Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel 
Anthony Wayne; promoted in January, 1777, First Lieutenant; and 
later. Captain, for gallantry at Stony Point. He served until the close 
of the war, and was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Society of 
the Cincinnati. Later in life he became a brigadier-general of the Penn- 
sylvania Militia, and was a member of Congress in 1801-1803. He 
died at Columbia, Lancaster County, 24 October, 1822, in the seventy- 
ninth year of his age. 

* Etting's Histor>- of Independence Hall, 
t Philadelphia Deed Book, D, 3, p. 339. 




ERRATA AND ADDENDA 



Page 49, No. i66. The date of birth of John Bringhurst should be 6 June, 1832. 

Page 53. In Shipley note it is stated that Joseph Shipley was a grandson of 
William Shipley. It should read : grandson of Thomas Shipley by his wife Mary 
Marriott, and great-grandson of William Shipley. 

Page 54, No. 196. The date of birth of Edward Bringhurst should be 10 October, 

1834. 

Page 63, No. 273. Mrs. Llewellyn T. Barr died 23 April, 1901. 

Page 80, No. 419. Alice Constance Bringhurst, daughter of Henry Washington 
Bringhurst, was born 6 May, 1901. 

Page 80, No. 420. Horace Morton Bringhurst Zipf should be Horace Morton 
Bringhurst. 



INDEX 



Abercrombie, Minerva, 76, 90 

John Conner, 90 
Allen, Nathaniel, 96 

William, 97, lOJ 

William (Hon.), 97 

W. E., 83 
Andrew, John Scott, 82 

Minnie Waugh, 82 
Anthony, , 131 

Susanna, 31 
Armitage, Almira, 35 

George, 35 

Mary, 35 

Rebecca, 35 

Shibert, 35 
Arniitt, Thomas, 100 
Aschkaw, La Princesse Catharine d", 31 
Ash, Mary Elizabeth, 61 
Ashniead, Anna, 22, 27 

Charles, 46 

Edward, 46 

Jacob (Captain), 45 

James H., 46 

John, 25, 27, 28 

John, 45 

John', 46 

Joseph Keen, 46 

Mary, 28 

Samuel, 36, 45 

Samuel, Junr, 45 

Susan Keen, 46 

William, 45 
Atlee, Sarah, 51 
Aungiers, Francis (Sir). 115 

Lettice, 115 
Bachman, Caroline, 57 
Bacon, J. D., no 
Bain, H. Robert. 60 
Baldwin, Elizabeth, 131 
Bancker, Anne, 116 

Evert, 126 



Bancker, Gerrit, 126 

Maria, 125 

William, 126 
Barber, , 132 

John, 98 
Barclay, David, 104 
Barker, Abraham, 31 

Ruth, 31 

Thomas, 22 
Barndollar, Elizabeth, 45 

Peter, 45 
Barnett. Thomas, 100, loi 
Barr, Clara Violetta, 63 

Llew-ellyn T., 63 
Batchelder, Margaretta Sutor, 57 
Bathurst, Charles, 22 
Baugh, Samuel, 50 
Bauman, J. A. (Rev.), 65 
Bealing, Benjamin, 22 
Bedford. Louisa. 44. 63 
Beitler, Eleanor, 49. 69 
Bells, John, 104 
Berryhill, Rebecca, 67 
Bethel, Mary, 131 

Samuel, 131 
Bcttle, Hannah, 95 

John, 95 

Rachel, 32, 38, no 

Samuel, 38, 95 

Sarah, 38 

William. 95 
Betts, Mahlon, 54 

Mary W., 54 
Bevins, William, 99. 100 
Biddle, Clement C. (Colonel), 35 
Billender, John, 96 
Bingham, Henry H., 65 
Binney, Barnabas (Dr.), 29 
Birchall. Elizabeth L., 60 
Blair. Eliza, 44, 63 

James, 63 



137 



INDEX 



Blish, Henry, Co 
Bockius, Camelia Elinor, 60 
Charles Franklin, 60 
Emeline Catharine, 60 
Francis William, 44, 59 
J. Harry, 43, 59 
Jacob Miller, 60 
Johan Gottfried, 59 
Johannes Wendell, 59 
Joseph, 59 
Joseph Henry, 60 
Lodovic, 59 
Mary Fraley, 60 
Peter Lodovic, 59 
Thomas Bringhurst, 59, 60 
Bond, Elizabeth Ross, 79 
Lon A., 79 
Thomas Charles, 79 
Bonnell, Charles, 55 
Charles Russell, 56 
Cornelia, 56 
George Bringhurst, 55 
Mary Ann, 55 
Sallie S., 56 
Samuel, 42, 55 
William White, 56 
Booth, E., Ill 
Boude, Adlord, 129 

Elizabeth (dau. Dr. Samuel), 132 
Elizabeth (dau. Thomas), 132 
Grimstone, 129, 130, 131 
Henrietta, 130, 132 
Jemima, 131 
John, 130, 132 
John Knox (Dr.), 132 
Jonathan, 131 
Joseph, 130, 131, 132 
Lydia, 131 
Margaret, 131 

Mary, 119, 129, 130, 132, 133 
Rebecca, 131 

Samuel, 130, 131. 132, 133 
Thomas, 119, 131, 132, I33 
Bould, Samuel, 100 
Bowen, William, 49 
Bowers, John, 104 
Boyd, George (Rev.), 63 



Brambley, Sarah, 68 
Brayton, P., 108 
Brewster, Margaret, 36, 45 

William, 45 
Broades, Arthur, 28 
Bringhurst, Ada Eleanor, 87 

Albert Clement, 66 

Albert Henry, 83 

Alfred, 52 

Alfred Theodore, 80 

Ann, 35 

Ann Dilworth, 70, 88 

Anna*, 28 

Anna" (dau. John), 35 

Anna' (dau. Wm.), 37 

Anna" (dau. Joseph), 49 

Anna' (dau. Joseph), 49 

Anna' (dau. Colonel J. H.), 64 

Anna' (dau. Samuel), 69 

Anna' (dau. Colonel T. H.), 79 

Anna Augusta, 86 

Anna Bell, 85 

Anna Clarkson (dau. John Gull), 54, 

75 

Anna Clarkson (dau. Robert Ral- 
ston), 56, 79 

Anna Clarkson (dau. Captain Robert 
Ralston), 92 

Anna Katharine, 84 

Anna Hoops", 71 

Anna Hoops", 71 

Anna Maria', 58 

Anna Maria', 76 

Anne, 47 

Annie, 71 

Arthur Bryant, S7 

Augustus L., 44, 66 

Barbara, 22, 96 

Bernard Bicknam, 43 

Bessie, 87 

Bessie Ross, 92 

Betsey, 30 

Camille Coolidge, 90 

Carrie, 91 

Charles, 16 

Charles (s. Wm. Longstrcth), 52 

Charles (s. Wm. Augustus), 86 



138 



INDEX 



Bringhurst, Charles (s. John Henry), 91 


Bringhurst, Elizabeth" (dau. George), 42 


Charles Alfred, 80 




Elizabeth" (dau. Joseph), 39, 50 


Charles Edward, 68 




Elizabeth" (dau. Jesse), 43, 57 


Charles Ernest, 66, 84 




Elizabeth' (dau. Robt. Ralston), 57 


Charles Francis, 84 




Elizabeth' (dau. Joseph), 49 


Charles Harper, 70 




Elizabeth' (dau. Joseph), 49 


Charles Raguet, 84 




Elizabeth Ann, 44 


Charles Sharp, 59 




Elizabeth Ashburnham, y2 


Charles Shingle, 68 




Elizabeth E., 79 


Charles Sumpter, 68 




Elizabeth Shipley, 74 


Christiana, 76 




Ellen, 71 


Christopher Manlove, 


57 


Ellen Matilda, 67 


Clara Olivia, 70, 89 




Emeline Catharine, 44 


Clara Violetta, 64 




Emma Eleanor, 87 


Clara Wisdom, 85 




Emma Louisa, 81 


Clement, 36, 44 




Emmaline, 64 


Cordelia, 45 




Enos Lewis, 47 


Cornelia Clarkson, 42, 


55 


Ernest Randolph, 84 


Cornelia Eleanor, 64 




Ernest W., 82 


Cornelia Elinor, 44, 65 




Esther, 37 


Daniel, 86 




Esther Wilson, 73 


Deborah, 25 




Ethel Margaret, 75 


Deseret, 70, 85 




Evan Glen, 82 


Dorothy Hodgson, 81 




Fannie Eloise, 91 


Edgar Allen, 82 




Ferris, 54 


Edith Ferris, 74 




Florence', 81 


Edmund Leslie, 91 




Florence', 87 


Edna, 87 




Frances" (dau. Robert Ralston'), 81 


Ed\vard^ 32 




Frances' (dau. Wm. Joseph), 75 


Edward", 41, 53 




Frances Louisa, 44 


Edward', 54, 72, 95 




Francis Augustus, 66 


Edward' (s. Wm. Longstreth), 52 


Francis La Doux, 83 


Edward' (s. Edward, J 


unr), 74 


Frank Perry, 58 


Edward H., 85 




Franklin' (s. Chas. Sharp). 59 


Edward Slater, 67, 84 




Franklin' (s. Chas. Shingle), 68 


Eleanor, 69 




Franklin Palmer, 86 


Eleanor Canibe), 86 




George (Rev.), 57, 80 


Eliza, 36 




George', 22, 25, 27, 96 


Eliza Bethula, 86 




George*, 26, 27, 28, 33, 35 


Eliza Jane, 70, 87 




George' (s. James'), 34 


Elizabeth (w. of Dr. 


Thomas), 17, 


George' (s. John*), 34, 35, 42, 119 


95, 96 




George' (s. George'), 36 


Elizabeth' (sometimes 


called Rosina 


George" (s. Thomas'), 44 


Elizabeth), 22, 96 




George", (s. Jesse'), 43 


Elizabeth', 24, 99, 109 




George Augustus, 83 


Elizabeth', 35 




George Clement. 44 


Elizabeth' (dau. Wm.) 


■ i7, 48 


George Hugh, 84 



139 



INDEX 



Bringhurst, George Hunter', 54 


75 


Bringhurst, Jessie', 34, 35, 42, 43 


George Hunter' (s. John Henry), 90 


Jesse', 58 


George Hunter" (s. John Henry), 91 


Jesse Wilford, 86 


George Kendrick, 81 




Jessie, 87 


George Robert', 82 




John, 15 


George Robert", 86 




John, 16 


George Ruthvan, 76, 91 




John", 18, 21, 22, 58 


George Ruthvan, Junr, 91 




John', 17, 21, 22. 23, 95, 96, 103 


George Washington, 59, 81, 


82 


John* (s. John'), 24, 102, 103, 105, 


Gerard Clarkson, 42 




109 


Gideon Martin, 89 




John* (s. George'), 26, 27, 28, 2,2, a 


Guilda Ceciha, 90 




John' (s. Samuel*), 36 


Hannah, 28 




John' (s. James*), 22, 38, 107 


Hannah Harlan, 50 




John", 38 


Harriet, 89 




John' (s. James'), 39, Si 


Harriet Fleming, 68 




John', 49, 70 


Harry, 71 




John' (s. William Longstreth'), 52 


Harry Earl, 82 




John' (s. James'), 71 


Harry Fauche, 8s 




John Beitler, 69, 87 


Heber Grant, 87 




John Frank, 70, 89 


Helen, 92 




John Frank, Junr, 89 


Henrietta, 36 




John Gull, 42, 54 


Henry, 86 




John Henry (Colonel), 44, 61, 62, 


Henry, Esq™, 16 




63 


Henry Brashear, 91 




John Henry', Junr, 64 


Henry L., 69 




John Henry', Jun"", 76, 90 


Henry Ryan', 50, 71, 72 




John Henry", Junr, gi 


Henry Ryan', 72 




John Keen, 43, 57, 58 


Henry Washington, 80 




John Richardson, 53, 72, ^2, 95 


Hester, 26, 27, 28 




John Samuel, 86 


Horace, 68 




John Tripp, 87 


Horace Morton, So 




Jonathan, 32 


Howard, 86 




Joseph*, 24, loi, 107 


Isaac, 34, 35 




Joseph', (s. James*), 32, 39. 4a 41. 7i. 


Isaac (Rev. Dr.), 16 




108, no 


Israel, iJ. 47 




Joseph' (s. William*), 37 


Jack Conner, 90 




Joseph' (s. James'), 39, 49. 109 


James, 16 




Joseph' (s. Joseph'), 41, 52, 53 


James*, 24, 30, 31, 100, 107, 


108, III 


Joseph', 49 


James", 32, 38, 109 




Joseph' (s. John R.), 73 


James', 39, 49 




Joseph' (s. John'), 71 


James', 50, 71 




Joseph Alma, 86 


James', 71 




Joseph Crandall, 89 


James Marion. 91 




Joseph Robert, 67 


James Minerva, 91 




Joseph Willard, 87 


Jean Vicar, 63 




Josephine, 80 


Jennie, 84 




Julia, 67 



140 



INDEX 



Bringhurst, Julius Rene, 


84 




Bringhurst. Mary Elizabeth", 44 


Kate, 91 






Mary Elizabeth'. 63 


Kate Hulings, 85 






Mary Elizabeth' (dau. Samuel'), 69 


Katharine, 17 






Mary Elizabeth' (dau. William Long- 


Katherine Sexton. 83 






streth), 52 


Laur Selinda, 86 






Mary Elizabeth", 86 


Leo, 86 






Mary Graves, 52 


Leona, 71 






Mary Greenfield, 85 


Lewis, 70 






Mary Louisa, 92 


Lewis Bartleson, 47, 






Mary Lulu. 85 


Lorenzo, 86 






Mary Matilda, 47, 68 


Louis Howard. 87 






Mary Shute' (dau. Jesse"), 43 


Lucy, 87 






Mary Shute" (dau. Thomas'), 44 


Lydia, 71 






Mary Souder, 57, 58 


Lydia Hazel, 83 






Mary T., 74 


Mabel Wiley, 82 






Mary Thornton. 84 


Margaret, 35 






Mary Waters, 83 


Margaret Blair, 64 






Mary Wood, 56 


Margaret Richardson. 


53 




Matthew', 36 


Margaret Roberts, 54 






Matthew", 42 


Margaret Simmons, 43 




Matthias, 36 


Margaretta Simmons, 


44. 59 




Matthias Keen, 43. 58 


Maria Louise' (dau. 


Major 


Robert 


Mifflin Morris, 86 


Wilton), 83 






Mildred Shute, 43 


Maria Louise' (dau. 


Francis 


Augus- 


Minnie', 82 


tus), 66 






Minnie", 91 


Marias William, 86 






Mohonari Louis, 86 


Marion, 87 






Nettie Houston, 84 


Mark Dilworth, 89 






Newton Taliaferro, 83 


Martha Jane, 44, 64 






Norma, 89 


Mary' (dau. George') 


, 28 




Rachel, 32, 108 


Mary* (dau. John'), 


24, 29, 


99. loj. 


Raymond Kopp, 71 


no 






Rebecca', 28 


Mary' (dau. John'), 35 




Rebecca", 44, 60 


Mary' (dau. George*) 


. 36 




Rebecca', 63 


Mary' (dau. William 


). 37 




Rebecca Hulings. 67 


Mary' (dau. Samuel') 


. 36, 46 




Rebecca Lydia, 52 


Mary", 39, 50 






Reta Gladys, 83 


Mary' (dau. James'), 


50 




Robert", 36, 45 


Mary' (dau. Colonel 


Thomas Hall), 


Robert'. 67 


79 






Robert Morris, 57, 81 


Mary' (dau. Edward Slater), 


84 


Robert Peirce, 69 


Mary' (dau. Robert Morris), 


81 


Robert Porter, 71, 89, 90 


Mary', 87 






Robert Porter, Jun"", 80 


Mary Anna, 42, 54 






Robert Ralston", 42, 56 


Mary Dickinson, 40, 41 




Robert Ralston' (s. William White) 


Mary Eleanor, 86 






81 



141 



INDEX 



Bringhurst, Robert Ralston' (Captain) 


Bringhurst, Walter Scott, 90 


(s. Colonel Thomas Hall), 


79. 91. 


Washington Henry', 56, 75, 79 


92, 129 




Washington Henry', 79 


Robert Tudor, 68 




William, 16 


Robert Wilton (Major), 66, 


82 


William', 26, 27, 28, 36 


Robert Wilton, Junr, 83 




William', 36 


Rosina (Mrs.), 22 




William", 41 


Sallie Scott, 85 




William' (s. Joseph"), 49, 69, 70 


Samuel', 26, 27, 36 




William' (M.D.) (s. Ziba Ferris), 54, 


SamueP, 36 




74 


Samuel' (s. Edward"), 54 




William' (s. Joseph'), 49 


Samuel' (s. Joseph"), 49, 69 




William' (s. William Longstreth), 52 


Samuel', 69, 87 




William" (s. John Frank), 89 


Samuel", 86 




William" (s. William Joseph), 75 


Samuel Enoch, 87 




William Albert, 87 


Samuel Houston, 84 




William Augustus', 69, 86 


Samuel Parker, 71 , 




William Augustus", 86 


Sarah, 36 




William Joseph' (s. Dr. William), 75 


Sarah', 27, 28, 32 




William Joseph' (s. William'), 70 


Sarah', 34, 35 




William Lawrence, 80 


Sarah", (dau. George'), 42 




William Longstreth, 51 


Sarah" (dau. Thomas'). 44 




William Morris. 47 


Sarah', 56 




William Robert, 45, 66 


Sarah', 76 




William Rufus', 67, 85 


Sarah Ann, 39 




William Rufus', 85 


Sarah Ryan, 50 




William Stuart', 66, 83 


Susan, 49 




' William Stuart', 84 


Susanna, 42 




William White, 57, 81 


Susanna Fraley, 44, 61 




Wright Armat, 47 


Tacy, 36, 45 




Ziba Ferris, 41, 54 


Theodore Plummer, 85 




Brooke, Mary Ann Ritchie, 59 


Thomas (Dr.), 17, 95 




Robert, 59 


Thomas, 16 




Brooks, Maria, 55 


Thomas, 17 




Samuel, 55 


Thomas', 24, loi 




Brown, Amanda, 60 


Thomas', 34, 35, 43, 44 




Elizabeth Ashburnham, 72 


Thomas", 43 




James, 82 


Thomas' (s. Joseph"), 49 




Rebecca, 59, 81 


Thomas' (s. Colonel John Henry), 63 


Wilson, 58 


Thomas", 76 




Bryan, Marianne, 74 


Thomas Hall (Colonel), 56 


76. 78, 


Buckley, William, 102 


79 




Budd, James Fletcher, 60 


Tudor Robert. 45, 68 




Burke, Nettie Eloise, 76, 91 


Vera, 86 




Andrew Jackson. 91 


Vera Grace, 82 




Burton, Anthony, 97 


Vida, 86 




Cadwalader, John, 104 


Viola G., 82 




Callender, Hannah, 30 



142 



INDEX 



Camden, Ella, 58 




Claypoole, Mary, 22, 44, 98 


Robert, 58 




Clayton, John M. (Hon.), 72 


Cantrill, Empson Bird, 59 




John, 119 


Matah Cordelia, 59 




Rachel, 119 


Carpenter, Samuel, 34 




Clingan, , 132 


Carroll, Ann, 32, 38 




Close, Frances, 57 


Carson, Anna E., 49 




Cochfield, Joshua, 97 


Annetta, 49 




Coleman, William (Hon.), 100 


Azariah, 49 




Colladay, Susan, 45 


Frank R., 49 




Colley. Thomas, 109 


Carter, Lucy Wright, 67 




Collins, Thomas, 102, 103 


William, 23 




Conklin. Emma Hannah. 76 


Clialkley, Thomas, 23, 104 




Conrad, Henry C, 72 


Champion, Alford H. (Dr.), 84 




Cook. Francis, 96 


Mattie Eliza, 67, 84 




James, 42 


Clark, Joseph, 104 




Mary, 96 


W. B., 108 




Mildred, 42 


Walter, 85 




Coolidge, Henry A., 89 


Clarkson, Anna (dan. Mayor Matthew), 


Mary Frances, 71, 89 


35. 42, 119 




Cooper, Fannie, 81 


Anna (dau. Captain Matthew), 117 


Thomas, 17 


Catherine, 116 




Coultas, James, 102 


Cornelia (dau. Captain Matthew), 


"7 


Coutam, Thomas, 105 


Cornelia (dau. Mayor Matthew), 


119 


Cowper, William, 41 


David (Rev.), D.D., 115 




Cox, Deborah, 131 


David (s. Mayor Matthew), 116, 


119 


Elizabeth (Mrs.), 120 


David (s. Captain Matthew), 117 




Henrietta, 131 


Elizabeth, 115 




James, 120 


Gerard, 119 




John, 120 


Gerardus, 117 




Maria, 120 


John, 117 




Peter, 131 


Levinus (s. Captain Matthew), 117 


Robert Ralston. 120 


Levinus (s. Mayor Matthew), 119, 


120 


Sarah (Mrs.), 120 


Matthew (Captain), 116, 126 




Sarah Ralston, 120 


Matthew (s. Mayor Matthew), 11 


9 


Thomas, 22 


Matthew (Mayor), 42, 117, 118, 


119. 


Crandall, Ann Dilworth, 89 


129, 131 




Ivy Lucile, 89 


Matthew (Hon.), 115 




Martin Pardon, 88, 89 


Matthew (Major-General), 116 




Mahala Harriet, 70, 89 


Sarah, 119, 120 




Milan Lucian, 70, 88 


Thomas, 119 




Milan Lucian, Jun'', 89 


Clawson, Jessie, 88 




William Bringhurst, 89 


Clay, Henry, 41 




Crawford, Ada, 65 


Claypoole, Elizabeth, 24, 99 




Crhall, Charles Engle, 60 


George, 99. 100, loi 




Elizabeth Fraley, 61 


James, 24, 96 




Jacob, 44, 60 


John, 24, 91 




Mary Ann, 60 



143 



INDEX 



Crhall, Rebecca Milner, 6l 

Susannah Margaretta, 6l 

Thomas Bringhurst, 60 

William Henry Fraley, 60 
Cribb, Captain, 104 
Crippen, Edward J., 50 
Crotch, W., no 
Culnan, Charles, 58 

Elizabeth, 43, 58 

Margaret (Mrs.), 58 
Currier, Mary, 28 

William, 28 
Damens, Maritie, 126 
Darling, Sarah, 61 
Davis, Samson, 34 
Dean, Benjamin, 120 

John Sterling, 63 

William, 120 
De Hass, John Philip, Sen^ (Colonel), 45 
De La Noys, Abraham, 124 
De Peyster, Abraham (Colonel), 124, 125 

Abraham (s. Captain Johannes), 126 

Anna, 126 

Catharine, 126 

Cornelia (dau. Johannes, Esq^e^ 125 

Cornelia, 116 

Cornelia (dau. Captain Johannes), 
126 

Cornells, 125 

Elizabeth, 126 

Gerardus, 126 

Isaac, 125 

Jacob, 125 

Johannes (Captain), 116, 124, 125, 126 

Johannes, Esqre, 123, 124 

Johannes, (s. Captain Johannes), 126 

Maria, 125 

William, 126 
Detwiler, Daniel D. (Dr.), 68 

Stanley Hobson, 68 
Dickinson, John (Colonel), 39, 40, 41, 99, 
III 

John (Mrs.), 40 

Jonathan, 99 

Dillard, , 131 

Diller, John, 46 
Dilwin, John, 104 



Dilwin, Mary, 104 

Sarah, 104 
Dilvvorth, Ann, 49, 69 

Caleb, 69 
Dissinton, Cornelia, 125 
Di.xon, Amy, 41, 54 

Isaac, 54 

Samuel G. (Dr.), 74 
Dobleman, Elizabeth L., 55 
Dorsey, Maria, 120 

Robert Ralston, 120 
Drinker, D., in 

Elizabeth (Mrs.), 119 

Henry, in 
Duche, Jacob (Colonel), 102 
Dunant, Edward, 34, 35 
Dungworth, Emanuel, 22, 96 

Richard, 22 
Eastburn, Benjamin, 25 
Eccles, Margaret Elizabeth, 50 
Eccleston, Theodore, 22 
Eddins, Jessie, 87 
Edes, Robert, 105 
Edghill, Simon, 23, 100 
Edwards, Morgan (Rev.), 36 
Emlen, Samuel, 108, no 
Epperson, W. P., 85 
Ernst. Baltzer, 59 

Anna Maria (Mrs.), 59 
Estaugh, John, 104 
Evans, David, 49 

Elizabeth, 39, 49 

Mary, 29 

Mordecai Dawson, 52 

Peter, 100 
Eyre, Mary Ann, 120 
Fairman, George, 65 
Farren, Jane Josephine, 57 
Fenton, Thomas, 100 
Ferguson, Annie E., Ti 
Fern, Peter, 105 
Ferris, Deborah, },2, 41, no 

Ziba, 41 
Finnegan, Katharine, 75 
Finney, Charles, 34 
Mary, 28, 34 
Samuel (Rev., D.D.), 117 



144 



INDEX 



Fitzgerald. Edward, Earl of Kildare, 115 


Gamble, Robert Bringhurst. 57 


Flanagan, Louis A , 81 


William Pateman. 57 


Fleming, Christopher, 104 


Garrett, George Rowcll, 55 


Harriet, 68 


Levi. 55 


John, 104 


Mary Margaret. 55 


Flower, Mary, 117 


Garvin. William Stewart. 44 


Samuel, 117 


Gemmill, Arthur Stewart, 79 


Floyd, David, 64 


Henry C. (Dr.), 79 


Cornelia Eleanor, 64 


Henry C, Jun"". 79 


Mary Bringhurst, 64 


Julia, 79 


James, 64 


Robert Bringhurst. 79 


Ford, Philip, 22 


Thomas Bringhurst, 79 


Fothergal, John, loi 


Thomas Hugh, 79 


Fothergill, Samuel, 107 


Gergas, Elizabeth, 46 


Foulke, Cadwalader, 29, 103 


Gibbons, Anna, 28 


Cadwalader", 29 


Helen (Mrs.), 28 


Deborah, 30 


Henry. 28 


E., no, III 


Gibson, Mary Agnes, 82 


Elizabeth, 30 


Goodman, Elizabeth, 47 


John, 29, no 


Goodson, Job, 103 


Judah, 24, 29, 103 


Gordin, Governor, 100 


Mary, 29, in 


Gotwaltz, Elizabeth, 68 


Fowle, Thomas. 105 


Graff, Mrs., 24 


Fox, George, 18 


Graves, Bartholomew, 51 


Fraley, Henry, 43 


Rebecca Lydia, 39, 51 


John, 43 


Green, Captain, 102 


Mary, 35, 43 


Ashbcl (Rev., D.D.), 120 


Franklin, Benjamin, 31 


Greenfield. Mary Jane. 67, 85 


Fredericks, John Long, 49 


Gregory. David, 43 


Freeburn, Jane, 64 


Rachel B., 39 


Freeman, Ann Margaret, 116 


William, 39 


Bernardus (Rev.), 116 


Grimston, Edward (Sir), 129 


Fremont, John C. 79 


Henrietta, 129 


Froert, Margaret, 74 


Groesbecl:, Ann Louise, 88 


Friili, Elizabeth, 43 


Clara, 88 


Heinrich, 43 


Emma Elizabeth, 88 


Fuller, Mahala, 88 


Frank, 88 


Fulton, Robert, 41 


Florence, 88 


Gallagher, Ann, 51 


Grant Allen, 88 


Gamble, Charles. 57 


John A., 70, 88 


Edmund Nelson, 57 


John A., Junr, 88 


Emma Matilda, 58 


Mark Bringhurst, 88 


George Washington, 57, 58 


Milton Dilworth, 88 


John, 43, 57 


Nicholas. 88 


John Keen, 57 


Walter Scott, 88 


Mary Elizabeth, 57 


Guest, Alice (Mrs.), 96, 104 


Mildred, 57 


Elizabeth, 96 



145 



INDEX 



Guest, George, 96, 104 


Henekel, Mary Ann Dorothea, 64 


George (s. George), 23, 96 


Herkness, Adam, 37, 38 


John, 96 


Adam, Jun"", 48 


Phebe, 96, 104 


Alfred Morris", 48 


Gurley, John, 105 


Alfred Morris', 48 


Hahn, William (Dr.), 47 


Benjamin Leander, 48 


Haines, Reuben, 59 


Benjamin Theodore, 48 


Hall, Alice, 107 


Elizabeth, 48 


Anna, 55 


Isabelle, 48 


Charles, 55 


Leander, 48 


Edward Augustus, 55 


Mary, 48 


Edward James, 70, 89 


Walter, 48 


Elinor Bringhurst, 89 


William, 48 


Ferol, 89 


Hiester, Emma M., 49 


George Bringhurst, 55 


Hilderburn, Phebe, 50 


John, 54 


Hill, Henry Van Reid, 64 


John', 55 


Richard (Mayor), 102 


Mabel, 89 


Richard, 98 


Margaret, 55 


Hillegas, Michael, 131 


Thomas Mifflin, 42, 54 


Hinchman, Joseph H., 61 


Wilton D., 89 


Hobart, , 131 


Hamilton, John D., 102 


Hobson, Francis, 47, 68 


Hanley, Cornelia Anna, 59, 8i 


Frank M., 68 


Hardin, William Allen Miles, 98 


Freeland G., 68 


Harris, A. Jackson, 60 


John, 68 


Harrity, William F., 65 


Mary M., 68 


Hart, Catharine, 64 


Sarah, 68 


Haslett, James, 59 


Hodgson, Fanny, 81 


Haughton, John, 108 


Frederick A., 81 


Haymond, Amasa L., Jun'', 88 


Holcroft, Elizabeth. 116 


Amasa L., 70, 87 


Henry (Sir), 115 


Ann Eliza, 88 


Holland, Emeline, 50 


Edward Owen, 87 


Holmes, Thomas, 24 


Elma Florence, 88 


Holton, Arthur. 96 


Frank Owen, 88 


Hood. Elizabeth. 34 


George Dilworth 88 


John, 34 


John C, 88 


Hopper, John, 99 


Louise Bringhurst, 88 


John S., 56 


Marion Bringhurst, 88 


Hopwood, Samuel, 104 


Walter Creed, 88 


Horton, Amanda Almine, 89 


William Bringhurst, 88 


Hoskins, Mary, 97 


Hazard, Ebenezer, 116 


Richard (Dr.), 97 


Samuel, 116 


Houston. Henry H., 56 


Samuel (analyst''. 116 . 


Nettie Powers, 66. 83 


Heise, , 132 


Sam (Major-General). 83 


Hendricks, Ella M., 68 


Hudsonn. Thomas. 22 


Henekel, John Michael (Dr.), 64 


Hughes, Elizabeth, 17, 95 



146 



INDEX 



Huidekoper, Henry S., 65 


Keser, Harry J., 64 


Hillings. Julia, 45, 66 


Kester, Elizabeth Boyd. 56 


Marcus, 67 


Keyser, Elizabeth, 46 


Thomas, 67 


Peter, 46 


Hurst, Jane, 60 


Kile, Mollie, 82 


Hyatt, John, 104 


Kinsey, John, loi 


Ingram, William, 22 


Klincken, Arent, 25, 96 


Jackman. Joseph, loi 


Knight, Peter, 45 


James, Amanda Melvina (Mrs.), 54, 74 


Kramer, Florence, 83 


Benjamin, 105 


Joseph, 83 


Mary H., 73 


Lanning, Benjamin. 49 


Thomas M., 7J 


Larison, Margaret R., 57 


Jarret, John, 25 


Lauderdale, Howard, 79 


Mary, 25 


Howard F., 79 


Jefferis, Elizabeth, 53 


Lavalley, Charles, 96 


James (Captain), 53 


Lawton, Mary, ^2., 38 


Jefferson, President, 39, 41 


Robert, 38 


Jenkins, Sarah, 47 


Lea, Catharine Moore. 55 


Jewell, Martha, 64 


Thomas, 55 


Johnson, , 45 


Leberman, Ferdinand, 64 


Jones, Charles Henry. 103 


Leckie, Judith Taliaferro, 66, 83 


John, 27 


William R.. 83 


Jordan, Robert, 102, 103, 104 


Lee. Bishop, 80 


Justice. Lemuel Burgess, 57 


Leech, Toby, 28 


Kaiser, Christine (Mrs.), 81 


Lehman, Benjamin, 46 


George Bringhurst, 81 


Benjamin Bringhurst, 46 


Henry, 81 


Christian, 46 


Julius, A., 81 


Elhanan, 46 


Kay, Martha, 79 


Godfrey, 46 


Keen, Gregory B., 36 


Lorenzo Levering, 46 


John, 42 


Samuel Bringhurst, 47 


Joran, 36 


Susanna E., 47 


Joseph P.. 58 


William, 36, 46 


Matthias, 36 


Leivens, Annetje, 115 


Mildred. 35, 42 


Levis, S3 


Susanna. 28. 36 


Lewis, Colonel. 42 


Kelly, James, 75 


Isaac, 47 


Mary Frances, 75 


Mary, 37. 47 


Kelley, Marion. 95 


Lincoln, Abraham, 62, 82 


William, 95 


Lippincott, Ella, 66 


Kendrick, George W.. 81 


Littlefield, Mary, 57 


Jennie R., 57, 81 


Livingston, Margaret (Mrs.), 116 


Keppele, Mary Mitchell. 55 


Robert, Jun"", 116 


Michael (Hon.). 55 


Loder, Mary Jane, 48 


Kern, Susan, 49 


Lodovvyck, Charles (Major), 116 


Kersey, Jesse, no 


Loftus, Ralph, loi 


Keser, Carl William, 64 


Logan, James, 23 



147 



INDEX 



Longstretli, James, 51 

Joseph, 50 

Joseph, Juni", 51 

Margaret, 51 

William, 51 

William Wilson, 39, 50, 51 
Lubberts, Cornelia. 124 

Marritie, 124 
Liikens, John, 34 
Lusk, Eloise, 91 
Mackenet, Daniel, 27 
Madison, President, 39 
Maddock, Anna, 50 

Edward, 50 

Ezekiel Edwards, 50 

Henry, 50 

John B., so 

Mary L., 50 

Phebe, 50 

William L., Juni", 50 

William Lloyd, 39, 50 
Maddox, Joseph, loi 
Mahon, John Alexander, Jun^, 65 

John Alexander, M.D., 65 
Man, Captain, 102 
Manlove, Christopher, 67 

Virginia, 45, 67 
March, Eliza, 49, 70 

Henry, 70 

Mary (Mrs.), 70 
Marshall. Ann, 31 

James, 102 

Louise, 66 
Marvilius, Johannes Heinrich, 59 

Phillipina Catharina, 59 
Matern, Abigail, 21, 22, 95 

John, 21, 94, 95 

Rosina, 20. 95 
Mayes, Edward, 96 
McCord. Sarah Elizabeth, 61 
McCnllongh, John, 34, 35 
McCune, Earl Vivian, 88 
McDonald, Maria, 81 
MtKean, Thomas (Governor), 45 
McKee, Margaret, 50 
McNamee, Ellen, 51 

John, 51 



Mecke, Clara Bringhurst, 64 

George, 64 

George Kenneth, 64 

Mary Kate, 64 
Meller, Elizabeth, Ti 

George B., -jt, 

Sarah Savery (Mrs.), "jz 
Mengle, Annetta Margaret, 64 
Merrill, 132 
Michener, Fannie, 64 

John Hart, 64 

William, 64 
Miles, Benjamin F., 58 

Benjamin Starne, 58 

Esther Starne (Mrs.), 58 

Franklin Starne, 56 

Mildred Cook, 58 
Miller, John. 22 

Mary, 83 

Sebastian, 59 

Susanna, 59 
Millis, Susan, 42, 54 
Mitchell, John, 32, },}, 
Monroe, President, 39 
Moody, George Vernon, 41 
Mooney, Caroline Elizabeth, 61 
Moore, Ann, 108 

John Hamilton, 68 

Sarah, 109 

Sarah A., 68 
Morgan, Esther, 45 
Morris, Anthony, 23, 96, 104 

E., 108 

Mary, 28, 36 

Samuel, 102, 104 

Thomas, III 
Morrison, William, 22. 96 
Mort, Esther L.. 81 
Morton, Robert, 29, 30 

Samuel, 107 
Mustin, Susanna, 47 
Myers, Samuel Newton, 61 
Nagle, Henry, 92 

Mary, 92 
Naglee, John, 132 

Mary, 45 
Neale, Samuel, 107, 108 



148 



INDEX 



Neilds, Benjamin, 72 
Nelson, Nancy, 67 
Nesmith, Margaret. 54 

Neufville, , 75 

Newbold, Michael, Sen"", iig, 129 

Sarah, 129, 131 
Nicholls, 131 

Richard (Governor). 124 
Noble, Joseph, 10^ 
Offley, D., 108 
Oliver, Mary S., 55 
Orr, Robert, 87 

Sarah, 87 
Owen, Evan, 97 

Griffith (Dr.), 9? 
Oxley (Mrs.), 24 

John, 24, 105 

Joseph, 107, 108 
Packer, Judge Asa. 51 
Palmer, Anna, 28, i2 

Elizabeth, 28. 2>2 

George, 27, 28, ^2 

Mary, 28, 32 

Selinda Dalby, 69, 86 

Virginia, 48 
Parel, Sarah, 59 
Parker, Abraham H. 58 

Eleanor, 30 

Elizabeth Alice, 71 

Richard. 30 
Pastorius. Henry. 25 
Pateman, Mary, 57 
Patterson. George W.. 49 

Robert, 31 
Patton, Elizabeth, 75 
Paul, Susan. 63 
Paxon, Joseph, 52 

Margaret, 52 
Pearson, William, 30 
Peckover, Edmond. 105 
Peddle, Charlotte, 61 
Pemberton. Israel. 23, 104 

James. 30. 1 1 1 

John. 109 
Penington. Edward. 95 

Isaac, 95 

Isaac (Sir), 95 



Penn, John (Governor), 29, 46 

William, 23, 28, 95 
Perdue, William, 103 
Perry, Samuel, 58 

Sarah Crandall, 58 
Peters, Hannah, 24 
Pickering, John (Governor). 104 
Pierce. Rachel. 82 
Plummer, Thaddeus, 67 

Theophilus, 67 

Theophilus, Jun"", 67 
Plumsted, Clement, 104 
Pole, Anna, 24, 30, 31, 107, 108 

John, 30, 31 
Ponder, Governor, 52 
Poston, Benjamin Franklin, 67 

Frank Hulings, 67 

John Hamill, 67 

Philander Dake, 67 
Potter, Bishop, 56, 80 
Powell, Elizabeth, 34 

William. 34 
Prache, or Prachen, Barbara, 21. 22, 95, 
96 

Hillarius (Rev.) 21, 95 

Rosina, 21 
Prct, Alexander, 102 
Preuss, Barbara Cecelia, 61 
Price, Sterling (General), 83 
Pritchard, Edward S., 61 
Proud, Robert, 29, 107 
Proudfit, Abigail (Mrs.), 120 
Provoost. David. Jun^, 125 
Raguet, Condy (Colonel). 35 
Ralston, Abigail Hazard, 120 

Ashbel Green, 120 

Elizabeth Ann, 120 

George, 120 

Gerardus, 120 

Henry Rutgers, 120 

Matthew Clarkson, 120 

Maria, 120 

Rebecca, 120 

Rebecca (dau. George), 120 

Robert, 42. 119 

Robert, Jun^, 120 

Samuel Finley, 120 



149 



INDEX 



Ralston, Sarah, 120 




Scott. Robert Henry, 67 


William Cox, 120 




Sarah, 67, 85 


Read, Charles, 34 




Walter Greenfield, 67 


Reed, Thomas, 23, 97 




William Henry, 67 


Rex, Abraham, 59 




William Reese, M.D., 64 


Anna (Mrs.), 59 




William Reese (Rev., D.D.), 64 


Margaret, 59 




William Rufus, 67 


Reynell, John, 108 




Seal, Emma, 57, Bi 


Rice, Susanna Margaretta, 43 


Joseph H.. 81 


Richardson. Anna, 41, 52 




Mary, 54 


John, 52 




Segur, Count, 38 


Sarah, 7^ 




Sellers, Alexander, 74 


Richmond, John, 100 




Alexander", 74 


Ridgway, Mary, 109 




Anne Bringhurst, 74 


Roberts, Elizabeth, 104 




Samuel, 28 


Margaret, 54 




Sarah. 28, 45, 66 


Robins, Robert Patterson 


(Dr.), 102 


William. 74 


William, 23, 97 




William", 74 


Rodman, Clarke (Dr.), 103, 104 


Sewell, Richard, 132 


Sarah, 52 




Sexton, Elvira, 83 


Walter, 103. 104 




Sharp. Charles. s8 


Rodney, Rev. Mr., 60 




Laura, 51 


Rooke, Alice, ,S7, 81 




Rebecca, 43, 58 


Roosevelt, Margaretta, 126 




Sharpless, Benjamin. 11 


Rosch, Barbara, 59 




Edith, 41 


Rose, Thomas, 27 




Shingle, Caroline, 45, 68 


Ross, Elizabeth, 56, 79 




Shipley, Joseph, 53, 74 


Ezekiel, 79 




Sarah, 41, S3 


Roth, Elizabeth, 75 




Samuel, 53 


Harry, 49 




William. 53 


Royden, Mary, 34 




Shippen, Joseph, 43 


Ruckert, Johan Katharine, 


64 


Shute, Abraham, 34 


Ryan, John, 49 




Ann, 34 


Mary, 50, 71 




Anna, 34 


Rebecca, 39, 49 




Christian, 34 


Samson, Samuel, 30 




Elizabeth, 28. 34 


Sanders, Charles, 98 




Isaac, 34 


Sargent, Winthrop (General), 31 


Jacob, 34 


Saunders, William, 22 




John. 35 


Say, William, 96 




Joseph, 34 


Schlatter, Gerardus, 59 




Mary (Mrs.). 34 


Schrick, Paulus, 125 




Thomas, Senr, 34 


Schuyler, Philip Pieterse (Colonel), 115 


Thomas, Tunf, 34 


Scott, Burgess Henry, 67 




William, 34 


Edward Greenfield, 67 




Siddon, Samuel. 22 


Julia Bryan, 67 




Simmons, Catharine, 35 


Mary, 67, 84 




James, 34. 35 



150 



INDEX 



Simmons, John Bringhurst. 35 


Steel, Elizabeth, 34 


William S., 35 


James, 34 


Sims, Jane Minerva, 90 


Steele, Susan A., 69, 86 


John, loi 


Stephens, John, Jun"", 31 


Sissel, Margaret Ann. S7 


Stevenson, John, 107 


Slack, Elizabeth, 49, 70 


Mary, 55 


Slemons. Sarah, 120 


Stewart, Alexander, 125 


Slifer, Anna Floyd, 64 


Mary J., 56, 79 


Jacob, 63 


Stille, Charles J. (Dr.), 40 


John Henry, 63 


Stokes, Annie S., 53. 73 


Josiah Freed, 63 


James, 73 


Mary Bringhurst, 63 


Storer, John, 109 


Paul Bringhurst, 64 


Storey, Lyde, 61 


Walter Bringhurst, 63 


Stotsenberg, Annie M., 73 


Smith, 131 


Stuyvesant, Peter (Governor), 123 


Ada Zilla, 51 


Super, Henry W. (Rev.), 68 


Charles A. (Dr.), 44, 64 


Sutten, Mary, 99 


Charles Henry, 61 


Sweeney, John P., 52 


Charles Louis, 64 


Swift, John, 36 


Charles T., 64 


Tanguy, George B.. ^7 


Elizabeth Ashburnliam, 50, 72 


Samuel L., 56 


Fannie Jeannette Bliss, 65 


William B., 57 


Franklin (Captain), 72 


Tatnall, Elizabeth, 53, 73 


Horace J., 51 


Mary, 53 


Irene Elizabeth, 65 


Taylor, Abraham (Colonel), 102 


John Gait, 74 


Christopher, 18, 95 


Mary Bringhurst, 65 


Harriet, 89 


Nannah, 63 


Teerling, Jan Van, 126 


0. P. (Rev.), 68 


Tennent, Gilbert (Rev.), 116, 117 


Othelia G., 82 


Theobald, Ella, 58 


Rachel, 31 


Thomas, David D. (Rev.), 79 


Richard (Dr.), 31 


Evan, 100 


Samuel. 74, 109 


William, 104, 105 


Valentine, 82 


Thompson, Elizabeth. 88 


William (Dr.), 44 


Thorn, Ella, 65 


Songhurst, Elizabeth, g8 


Thornton, James, log 


John, 98, 99 


Tinsley, Samuel, 76 


John, Junr, 98 


Toaler, Andrew, 18, 95 


Sarah, 98 


Tomkins, John, 22 


Sender, John J., 43 


Torr, Anna, 56, 75, 79 


Spavold, Samuel, 107 


Charles Clarence, 75 


Spratt, John, 125 


Elizabeth, 75 


Stamper, Captain, 104 


Ellen, 75 


Stanbury, Marv 102 


Fanny, 75 


Nathan, 102 


Harry, 75 


Stapeley, Mary J., 69, 86 


John, 75 


Staples, John, 22 


Josephine, 75 



151 



INDEX 



Torr, Julia, 75 

Lucy, 75 

William Henry, 75 

William S., 54, 75, 79 
Tregeny, Elizabeth, 34 
Tripp, Emma Frances, 69, 87 

Enoch Bartlett, 87 

John, 105 

Nancy, 54, 75 
Trump, Sarah, 28, 35 
Turner, Kate, yd 

Maissie, 76 

Nathaniel Parker, 76 

Penelope, 68 
Tyson, Isaac, 30, iii 
Van Baal, Maria, 125 
Van Buylaert, John, 21 

Mariana, 21, 22, 95 
Van Cortlandt, Johannes, 116 
Van Eps. Dirk, 126 

Elizabeth Dirckse, 126 
Van Rensellaer, Jeremiah (Captain), 

Richard, 115 
Van Schayck, Catharine, 115, 116 

Gerritje, 116 

Gerritt Goosen (Captain), 115 

Levinus, 116 

Margaretta, 116 

Maria, 116 
Vaughan, James (Rev., D.D.), 80 

Mary K., 63 
Veale, George, 74 
Verree, James, 63 

James, Juni", 63 

John P. (Hon.), 63 

John Paul Bringhurst, 63 
Vicar, Jean, 63 
Walker, Robert, 108 
Wain, N., 108, no 
Ware, Edmund, 67 
Warner, Edward, 100 
Washington, General, 32, Jil' 43 
Waters, John Richard (Hon.), 66 

Maria Louise, 44, 66 

Sallie Sellers, 66. 84 

William (Captain), 66 

William, Junf, 84 



115 



Watson, John, 109 

William, loi 
Watts, Elizabeth, 67 

Frederick (General), 67 
Wayne, Anthony (Colonel), 133 
Webb, Anna J., 54, y^ 

Thomas D., "jt, 

Webster, , 87 

Whelen, , 131 

Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth (Mrs.), 

99 

Joseph, 99 

Thomas, 99 
White, William (Right Rev.), 43 
Whitehead, James. 44 

Whitehill, , 132 

Whitney, , 131 

Emma St. Clair (Miss), 129, 132, 133 
Whitpain, John, 98 
Whittington, Benjamin, 44, 61 

Francis Louisa, 61 

George Washington, 61 

Henry Baeder, 61 

John Bringhurst, 61 

Louis Augustus, 61 

Mary Bringhurst, 61 

Sallie Darling, 61 

Sarah Ann. 61 

Susanna Fraley, 61 

Thomas Bringhurst, 61 

William Penn, 61 
Wickel, Sarah, 87 
Wilkinson, Elizabeth. 107 

Margaret, 45 
Williams, William (Mrs.), 35 
Willis, Clarence Addison, 65 
Williamson, Nicholas Gilpin, 39 

Rebecca Catharine, 49, 70 
Willett, Thomas, 124 
Wilson, Esther Harlan, 53, T2, 

Isabelle, 58 

John, 97 

Rachel, 107, 108 

William Worthington, 73 
Winder, Catharine, 68 
Wister, William Wynne, 59 
Wood, Mary, 42, 56 



152 



liNDEX 



Woodrop, Robert S. (Dr.). 47 


Wunder, John Henry, 66 


Woollerton, Eliza, 70 


Lewis Gilliam. 44, 65 


Wright, Postmaster, 65 


Lewis Jeanes, 66 


R., 108 


Thomas Bringhurst, 65 


Wunder, Ella Sickles, 65 


Yerger, Mary Caroline, 79, 92 


Frank Augustus, 65 


John R., 92 


Ida Virginia, 66 


Young, Nell, 88 


Jacob N., 65 


Zipf. Delia. 80 



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